Maybe it’s an instance thing, maybe it’s a Boost thing, but when I search for communities with the simple term “fitness” for example, I only get 5 results that have like, 30 members max.

I’m totally down with organically growing my community list over time just based on links and recommendations, but it is a bit annoying to not find communities when I’m pretty sure that they should exist.

Does anyone have tips on how to find things better?

  • NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy’s subscriber user count is usually wrong.

    You only see the true number if the community is on your instance

    Check the community from the original instance to see the actual number of subscribers

    If you’re searching for instances, you should use https://lemmyverse.net/communities since it lets you quickly compare subscribers, shows you more results and also is just better overall