I assume the Enterprise is on its way to resolve the issue diplomatically
It's not the best experience and it's not obvious or intuitive. A browser extension could simplify it substantially, at least. As could new features in lemmy itself, but you want to be careful about every lemmy instance consuming the content from every other one, as that won't scale easily for the average lemmy admin.
This is the biggest source of friction for Lemmy and the Fediverse. Non-tech savvy folks will not make the shift if it is such a pain to find the communities you want to join.
For the usual cases the normal UI should work fine.
It’s possible you’re seeing a bug, and it’s also possible that The System is Working.
I can tell you that the login link takes me to a form on Safari. When did tech people stop stating which browser they’re using and what quirky tools they have installed?
Here's a big list of servers (and their countries) sorted by MAU [1]. Note that the MAU data is out-of-date now that there's been a huge spike in the past few days.
Other wise I just, use the search bar. I just tested it with the goal of finding a photography related community. Found it with the first search result from "photography". [1]
Another example, I wanted to find a risc-v related community, one simple search [2], boom, I found one [3]
[0] e.g.: https://feddit.de/communities/listing_type/All/page/1
[1] https://beehaw.org/search/q/photography/type/All/sort/TopAll...
[2] https://beehaw.org/search/q/riscv/type/All/sort/TopAll/listi...
Edit: Also, idk how I missed it, but the communities tab [0] also has a search, so there you go, I don't even know what else you'd want.
I’m hoping Lemmy has a cross posting function that will serve a similar use case. You start in a woodworking forum here and someone reveals the DIWhy forum to you organically. After six to twelve months you have your hands full.
Other than the "not a lot is happening there now", but there's some activity.
The most recent posts on the server I'm on:
The Lower Decks crossover to live action in Strange New Worlds
Star Trek Discovery Canceled
‘Galaxy Quest’ TV Series in Early Development at Paramount+
Jack Crusher is how old?
Star Trek The Lower Decks S03E09 was everything I wanted.
(spam - into the kill file that poster went)
TOS Film marathon
(crossposted trolling - more kill file material)
Captain Burnham mob/cops/big city episodes (Star Trek Discovery)
(crossposted trolling - figured out how to do more complicated rules - "cross posted to more than 3 groups and newsgroups match \.politics\." with this reader)
(crossposted trolling - even more kill file material)
Ode to Spot. (this post is from 2012)
When will the new Star Trek merge with the Twilight movies? (this post is from (2011)
Just text content.
edit: and as I write this, a new post just showed up in the past 2 minutes about Strange New Words S02E01.
So none of the things many people like. I loved usenet back int he 1990s, but the refusal to adapt to what users like to do is a large part of what killed it.