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>im not too familiar with element servers though, i only really use one, i dont know how to find any others or how they work
All rooms are hosted on servers, like #fox:capybara.pictures is a room fox hosted on capybara.pictures. If you go to https://capybara.pictures you'll get an error, because there is no website running on that address, but if you go to https://element.capybara.pictures you'll get a webpage telling you that this site is hosting an element server, and you need to use a client to access it.
There are also collections of rooms called spaces. There are private spaces used to help people organize their own rooms and contacts, and public spaces that people use to share rooms they like.
The server you've registered on is called your home server. It knows your IP address, and if it deletes your account or goes down, your account all the rooms you've joined, all your conversations in rooms hosted on that server, etc. will be gone, so it's important to pick a reliable server run by a reliable administrator.
Whatever client you're using, there should be a button to view public rooms. It usually looks like a compass. It will show all public rooms indexed by your home server. Most will be on the server itself, but some can be from other servers.
There should also be a dropdown list allowing you to search rooms on other servers, including custom ones. That is assuming they allow external searches and don't blacklist your current home server.
You can see what servers host rooms on your homeserver's public list, search their public rooms and what servers they link to, etc.
There are also public lists of servers:
https://servers.joinmatrix.org/
https://matrixrooms.info/
https://github.com/kyra-b/Matrix-Public-Home-Server-List
https://tatsumoto-ren.github.io/matrix/
You can try searching public rooms on them, though most of those are intended to be used as personal homeservers, and don't allow room searches.
>if theres any cool ones i'd super like to know
Like with all federated platforms, element is mostly empty other than:
1 communities for tech and tech-related ideologies;
2 ideological communities (of both kinds) for people so ridiculous they got exiled from non-federated platforms;
3 lolishotacons that expect to be booted off the normal internet.
The only remotely TDM/kemono-related places I've found on element are rooms like #bunny:cutefunny.art on cutefunny.art and its neighbouring servers. (This is the "allthefallen server" I mentioned, since, I think it was linked as their official server at some point, so I call it that.)
But those are full of western art, and most of the conversation on there is porn posting and porn discussion, so none of the currently existing rooms are terribly interesting.
Perhaps, you could create your own room, or a space of rooms specifically for TDMs and kemonos on cutefunny.art or capybara.pictures. I could see it getting some traction. Otherwise, if you find something relevant to us, tell me too.
Picrel is how room search UI looks on the Schildi client. Base elements should be similar.