If the spirit of the fediverse is to spread everything across small instances, then i think it would be really important to make communities, especially niche communities, easier to discover across instances. Since it is not planned to crawl federated instances community catalog, i think instance admins, or maybe even the lemmy software itself, should point more obvious to services like https://lemmyverse.net/communities to search for communities instead of the lemmy (or mbin, piefed) internal search. It's been a while since i have seen someone talk about these community crawler services.

Instances that don't federate a remote community won't even list this community in the user profile of a moderator.

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[–] AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, i also don't think it's pointless.

Those instances opting out (if they did) probably has a good reason.

I just think it would be good to point users to some kind of crawler that knows all the communities. Searching communities under "all" from within lemmy is almost misleading. I feel like it mainly also affects smaller instances and communities.