New instance, no magazines. Now what?

Jerry@feddit.online to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 6 points –

I started a new KBIN instance. It has one magazine, random, because I created it. Anyone coming here will find no interesting magazines. It will be boring.

How do I find interesting magazines on other instances? Say, I want to find a magazine about Linux, somewhere on another KBIN or Lemmy server and add it here. If I search in the magazine search, no magazines show up. If I search using the topmost global search, no magazines show up.

How does a new instance get the list of magazines that are available from the other KBIN and Lemmy instances without visiting each one and creating a list to use for a full name search?

Or is my instance just broken?

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I think that's just the way it works right now. It's the same on kbin.social - I need to know the magazine and domain to "search" for it.

Not good for an application promising to be a "content aggregator"

This will lead to a number of magazines with the same names and topics existing all over the place because people can't see that a relevant one already exists. This will make a big mess and people will miss out on discussions.

And who would want to join any instance other than the biggest if they have to visit the biggest anyway to find interesting magazines?

And even on kbin.social, everyone is missing out on Lemmy ones. :(

Do you know if Lemmy can find magazines on KBIN or other Lemmy servers simply by searching by name?

Not good for an application promising to be a "content aggregator".

Agreed. I hope proper indexing (and therefore searching) of federated magazines/communities comes soon.

Do you know if Lemmy can find magazines on KBIN or other Lemmy servers simply by searching by name?

I'm not sure if Lemmy has the same issue or not.