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 !lemmy@lemmy.ml . 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?

    •  7eter   ( @7eter@feddit.de ) English
      2•1 year ago

      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.

      •  jarfil   ( @jarfil@lemmy.ml ) English
        1•1 year 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.