411-style community for finding communities?

technologenesis@programming.dev to Chat@beehaw.org – 7 points –

Seems like we could benefit from a large community specifically oriented towards helping others find communities for a specific topic. Does anything of that sort exist on beehaw or elsewhere?

EDIT: I will be including communities that fit this bill here as I find them so others can see them:

!lemmy411@lemmy.ca <--- this one fits the bill most closely

!wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca

!newcommunities@lemmy.world (defederated from beehaw, unfortunately, but potentially useful for others)

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You mean something where you ask for community recommendations from other people? Or just a searchable community index like lemmyverse.net?

yeah I was thinking some kind of 411 sub, something to use once you've tried the community index

Doesn't make sense to include a lemmy.world community as long as we aren't federated with them imo

i'm a visitor from distant reaches of the fediverse so i'm including it for fellow travellers