Discover
Find your people.
Browse public Nexuses by interest and join in one click. Private Nexuses never appear here — they stay invite-only.
Nightshift Devs
Engineering
Frame by Frame
Film & Photo
Trailhead
Hiking
Synth Lab
Music Production
What you can do
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Browse by interest
Search public Nexuses and filter by topic.
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One-click join
Join a public Nexus straight from its card.
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Invite links
Private and invite-only Nexuses join by link.
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Owner's choice
Only Nexuses made public are listed.
In practice
Growing a public community
A photography collective makes its Nexus public so new people can find it under Film & Photo, while a private Nexus for the core editors stays invite-only.
Find communities worth joining
Discover is Ballastra’s directory of public Nexuses — communities whose owners have opted in to being searchable. It exists so people can find communities by interest instead of needing an invite from someone already inside, and it is the on-platform answer to "where do people like me hang out?".
Only communities that choose to be public appear. A private Nexus stays invisible and invite-only, so the directory is genuinely curated by owners’ intention rather than being a firehose of everything that exists.
Search and browse by interest
Discover lets you browse public Nexuses by what they are about, so a new account is not a blank start. Whether you are looking for a dev community, a niche hobby or the people behind a product you follow, the directory is the front door.
Joining is low-friction: find a public Nexus that fits and join. The Nexus’s own structure — its categories, roles and moderation — is already in place, so a new member lands in an organised community rather than a raw channel dump. The control page covers how those roles and moderation rules are defined.
Join instantly with an invite link
Invite links work for every Nexus, public or private. A private community brings people in exactly this way — the owner controls the links, and the community stays invisible to search while members join through the link.
This gives owners both modes without a trade-off: public Nexuses gain discoverability, private Nexuses gain tight control, and a community can move between the two as it matures. The mechanics are the same either way — share a link, people arrive in the right place.
Common questions
Discover lists Nexuses that have chosen to be public, so you can browse what exists rather than needing an invite link from someone already inside.
No. A Nexus only appears in Discover if its owner makes it public. Private communities stay invisible and invite-only.
Yes. Invite links work whether or not a Nexus is publicly listed, which is how private communities bring people in.
Find your community.