Hi all, I’m new here. On Reddit there is the front page where I can find popular posts even in obscurely named subreddits like “leopardsatemyface” or “okbuddycinephile” that I could never find by actively searching for it.

How do you discover content on Lemmy that is not in your local instance?

I even tried subscribing to “leopardsatemyface” from Lemmy.world, but my app doesn’t even show it in the search results even when actively looking for it. 🤨

Please help 🙈

Also if you don’t mind another stupid question, when I subscribe to a community it is first shown as “pending” and only a few minutes later as “joined” - why? What is it waiting for?

  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    3·
    28 days ago

    when I subscribe to a community it is first shown as “pending” and only a few minutes later as “joined” - why? What is it waiting for?

    It’s synchronizing across servers. First it needs to ensure the remote server has your user object, then it tells the remote server to mark your user as subscribed to that community. And these aren’t immediate API calls, they’re queued up. Sometimes the message queue between servers has some other messages before yours so it may take longer than expected.

    • gtr@programming.devOPEnglish
      1·
      28 days ago

      Thanks! I guess setting up a functional federated network is far from trivial. Reading about ActivityPub right now.

  • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    28 days ago

    On top of what everyone else has said, when you visit the different feeds (Local, All, etc) you can set your sorting to Scaled so you are not completely overwhelmed with lowest common denominator stuff, and it will open up some options as you’ll see some smaller communities with niche interests.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    28 days ago

    Unlike Reddit, Lemmy is small enough that you can browse by New/All and it’s a reasonable amount of time to scroll back through a day’s worth of posts. I do that now and then, and if I see a post in a community I like, I’ll subscribe to it.

    I originally figured I’d do that for a while, then I’d just browse by Subscribed, but I find what I mostly do is browse by Top of however long it’s been since I was last on. Like if it’s been around 24 hours, I’ll browse by Top Day.