With kbin, for example, you can go to kbin.social/d/beehaw.org and view the entirety of Beehaw’s communities within kbin itself. I know that you can subscribe to particular communities on other instances, but I’d like to be able to view all of kbin’s domain from within Beehaw on one page. Just wondering if Lemmy has this same ability to do so, or if this is currently a unique feature for kbin?
No, I don’t believe such a feature exists as of right now, because indexing of Lemmy federated servers happen community by community.
It might be a nice to have for sure, along with tag groups, multi-communities and stuff like that.
Oh that makes sense, thanks! Still wrapping my head around this whole fediverse thing; looking forward to see how it grows and matures :)
My suspicion is kbin is not actually listing every possible community either, just the ones it knows about through the same sort of indexing, where Lemmy does not have an interface to view all of the known communities by instance. This hampers discovery a bit, but also avoids confusion as there may be additional communities available that don’t show up in that list if someone else on your instance hasn’t subscribed to it.
Kbin is heavily centralized right now, so the main instance does know about a ton of stuff.