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How does federation work with the "subreddit" model? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 2 years ago by mounderfod@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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Hi, I'm new here, so sorry if this has been asked before.

I understand that Lemmy is supposed to be like a decentralised Reddit, but I've got a question about this; on Reddit, there is only one server, with subreddits on it, so there is only one r/Music, only one r/AskReddit, etc.

However, on Lemmy there are many servers; would this lead to a situation where many servers have repeats of the same popular communities or does this not happen in practice? Is there a good way for me to find communities across all federated instances? Thanks :)

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[–] kilgore@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I have a related question, maybe I can post it here - how would one go about finding "subreddits" on Lemmy? At this point I'm just sorting by "All" and seeing what comes up on my feed, subscribing to subs that I like. But if I wanted to search for something specific? Something that's unlikely to pop up on it's own?

[–] HenryWong327@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Go to the communities tab, sort by all, then search for whatever it is you want.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There still isn't an "official" way to do this, but there's a neat browser at https://browse.feddit.de
Give it a shot!

[–] kilgore@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks!