- Lemmyverse - Filter and find Instances and Communities
- Lemmy Community-Browser - Alternative site to search for communities
- sub.rehab - Find where your favorite subreddit has made a community onn Lemmy
- FediDB - View Stats about Fediverse and Lemmy Instances.
- The Federation - Stats and Graphs on Fediverse Growth and Popular Instances on them
- Awesome Lemmy Instances - Index of Popular Lemmy Instances
- Fediverse Observer - Another site to find popular instances
- Lemmymap - Size of Different Lemmy Instances Visualized
- fedi-block - Find which instances have blocked your home instance
- Fedisearch - Search Fediverse through various search engines
I also made a post collecting beginner guides for new lemmy users. Feel free to comment any new site and I’ll update the list.
Yeah the community search on Lemmy leaves a lot to be desired. There’s no sort function and I’d like to be able to list them in order of activity. At this point I don’t know what to do other than scroll through pages and pages of listings. I’ll give those searches a try, very helpful.
Filtering would be nice, particularly by instance. I’ve had a few instances where I’ve opened the instance directly, saw a few I want to subscribe to, but then had to search for them one by one in my own instance.
However you can set your home instance in Lemmyverse and get links for each instance via your own, where you can subscribe.