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These guys run a bot that indexes all of the Threadiverse.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
It's not made obvious to new users, but it's generally a considerably-better option than simply looking at anything local to your Lemmy instance (including All) if you're trying to find new stuff for a number of reasons, most-importantly the fact that your home instance will only ever see posts from a community on a remote instance if at least one other user on your home instance has subscribed to that community.
Just grab the community there (!communityname@instancename, which it will copy if you click on the community name) and search for it on your home instance. Your home instance will contact the remote instance and learn about the community if it's never heard of it before. At that point, you can subscribe to the remote community, and if you're the first user on your home instance, it will start getting posts for that community.
This is less-critical on large instances, like lemmy.world, because you've got better odds that someone else with the same home instance has subscribed to a given community, but even there, if if you use All to find new communities, there are going to be remote communities that you just won't ever see. The only way to get a complete list is to do what the lemmyverse.net guys do, to index all instances on the whole Threadiverse.
Plus, this is searchable, sortable, you get a single entry per community so you don't have to crawl through all the
potentially offensive to you
posts to find a community, you can see communities that are rarely active without waiting for someone to post, etc.