Lemmy federation improvement regarding names and communities

Hi! It’s me as usual.

I was wondering if there could be a way for lemmy when federating to at least fetch:

community names
community nicknames
usernames

I’m a fan of the fact that it doesn’t fetch everything because it would be a mess very quickly and it makes no sense to fetch a whole server because one user of your instance maybe wants to follow a single community from a super big instance… But names? So when people search for communities don’t need to “force” federation check using the exact syntax.

2 Comments

poVoq@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

There is some discussion on the issue tracker about fetching a json file with all the communities from the Lemmyverse search engine to improve discoverability.

asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev · 2 pts · 1y

Depending on third party services for such stuff is generally bad. In fact, even the dev of Lemmyverse agrees with this:

I think that Lemmy needs some more discovery features, but I'm not sure that using an external website is the right way to implement it - That installs a centralized component to the system and also a single point of failure for discovery. - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3192#issuecomment-1597929774

Check this issue out instead: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2951

This will be coming in version 1.1.0.