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General FAQ

Below you'll find answers to some of the most commonly asked questions from new Lemmy users. If you don't see the answers you're looking for feel free to ask here or start a new post. Updates will be added as needed.

How can I find communities that interest me on Lemmy?

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We've done our best to get everyone started with the Fediverse by offering some of the most popular communities on Lemmy on our All page, but this is only a tiny fraction of what the fediverse has to offer!

An unfortunate side effect of how federation works is that communities don't start sharing data until someone from your home instance discovers and subscribes to them. What this means is a lot of the time you won't be able to easily find communities on other instances if you're the first one to search for that topic on our instance. Luckily there are lots of tools around the Fe