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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] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

~~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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.