this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2023
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Currently, the easiest way to find communities on remote servers to subscribe to is the community browser. I'm not sure how this problem could be solved technically in future, but yeah, discoverability is hard atm.
~~okay so this post just got me interested and i tried to connect to a community i found on the community browser. However i can't seem to connect to that community through the normal lemmy-ui. Is this due to slow federation. Or am i doing something wrong?~~
edit: okay just found out that that exact instance was blocked by mine :D
I falsely assumed the community browser would only show allowed instances.
Another thing I think is missing, is the ability to follow communities from instances that aren't federated together. I wonder if you'd have to start your own instance and read-only federate with them, but it would be nice to have a single interface to do it.
This is a very useful link, thank you :)