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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[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Since it is not planned to crawl federated instances community catalog

Isn't that issue about crawling content?

Also, the devs have mentioned fetching community lists before, unless I remember wrong.

[–] AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Isn’t that issue about crawling content?

I don't think so. Dessalines even suggest one should rather use f.e. lemmyverse to search for not-yet-federated communities, but how does a lemmy user even find out about services like this?