I’m missing something.

I’ve been looking for a college football magazine. When I clicked “Magazines” on my Kbin home and entered football or cfb, nothing came up. Something comes up now, because I made one. But then I saw a link to a web page called “Lemmy Explorer” and when I search there, four or five CFB communities show up.

What’s the simplest path for finding communities or magazines based on a keyword and making sure I’m not missing anything?

Bonus question: How does subscription to a magazine affect content I see? So far, I have only tracked down subscribed material by having notifications turn on and following those links?

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
    14·
    1 year ago
    • feddit has a good community browser
    • because all the instances are federated, they don’t download information from another instance until it is necessary (to save on bandwidth and server space)
      • instances become linked when a user from one instance subscribes to a community/magazine on another instance or when they try searching for content on another instance
        • this is also why there’s a delay when searching “All”, gotta give the instance a little bit to go out and start grabbing content – and this is why searches come back with nothing but if you just wait, suddenly it starts populating half a minute later
      • you can see which instances your instance is already linked to (and which instances your instance is blocking) by adding /instances to the end of your instance’s url – ex. lemmy.world/instances