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Following remote communities is hard. (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's easy to discover communities on my instance via the dedicated page in the hamburger menu. But let's say I want to follow a community on another instance, such as [email protected] . I might have found its name mentioned in a post or comment. When I click on the provided link, I'm thrown on that instances web page, from which I of course can't subscribe.

So what I instead have to do is to copy the description of the link and paste it in my instance's search bar. Which isn't easy, since it's a link, so there isn't even a straightforward way to select the link text without clicking the link. This seems very unintuitive and makes the process of joining a whole bunch of communities tedious. Is there a better way?

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[+] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can sub to it, but it's complicated. (Instead of accessing that community via it's remote host instance, you currently have to access it via your own home instance (for example by searching for it there). Maybe this could be made easier if lemmy would automatically replace links to other instances with the equivalent internal links.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Maybe this could be made easier if lemmy would automatically replace links to other instances with the equivalent internal links.

I like this idea. A default behavior of loading Lemmy links within your current server would make it much simpler to interact with and subscribe to any linked community. Perhaps the top of the page could have a link to view the page on its original server for people who do want to see the originating server for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You can (potentially), you just have to find it on your instance's community tab (it will display the communities hosted in your lemmy.ml as well as external ones it's "federated" to), you can't directly go to that instance's site and subscribe though. If it's a community from an instance not federated your outta luck though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That only shows the communities that someone from your instance already subscribed to, no? At least that's what I assumed because the user subscription counts were different if I'd look at a community from my instance, or from its local instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I believe this is true.