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Why doesn't lemmy show communities in the 'all' section unless people from your server are already subscribed to him? (unilem.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's excruciatingly obnoxious to have to rely on third party sources for what should be a first-party feature.

Like, I select all and then search a query. "Oh no, nobody on your server used a third party service to find it, so you won't see it here."

Like, how short-sighted is that, really? If I search for a string in the 'all' servers, I should have a list of 'all' the servers containing that string.

It's a really simple concept. Not sure why this post even has to be made, but I'm wondering if there's something I can do to make these 'features' more intuitive.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What does 'All' mean to you?

In this context it means all posts which are stored on the server you are on. And only things are stored which people subscribed to. It does not mean "‘all’ servers".

There are good reasons why the protocol has been designed like that, if you're interested then you can find out about it. If not, reddit still exists for people who like it more.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All means all. If it isn’t actually All (it isn’t) then it should be called something else.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it is all, just not the all you think, it's all things the server is aware of, not all things in the universe.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Uh... no it's not.

I'm sorry, but what you're doing is actively making this service harder to use by suggesting that 'all' should only mean 'the communities other community members have subscribed to that contain that string.'

Where do the community members even find the the ones to subscribe to? Oh, they use a third-party service or 'just know' because... whatever reason.

Gee, fediverse design strikes again. Sorry, it has to be said. It really does.

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