I was wondering if there’s a way to view a list of communities from another instance, but still logged into my account. I could, for example, go to https://lemmy.ml/communities, but if I do, I’m no longer logged into my Lemmy.world account.
Now, I know I can see communities from other instances by going to the Lemmy.world communities list and sorting by all, but I don’t know of a way to directly go into another instance’s community list.
And I think I’ve heard that you can’t see a community from another instance until people from your instance have “interacted” with it. I’m not sure exactly what that means. Is that just if they visit the community, or do they have to subscribe to it? Regardless, I’d have to imagine that you must be able to view communities from another instance in some easy way or else it seems like it would be really hard to discover other instances’ communities for the first time.
Thanks!
If you have enabled federation on your instance, all you have to do is go to search and put the community url of the instance and search for it. Your instance should be able to fetch that community and show it to you. After that, you can subscribe it from your own instance.
Hope this helps :)
I do already know how to do that, but I’m mainly wondering about being able to view an entire other instance’s community list. I mean, yeah, I guess I can work around that, and that is what I’ve been doing, but it’s just a little clunky to have to go to another instance logged out, copy the url, and then go back in through my own instance. There’s really no other way?
Yeah unfortunately that’s the only way. browse.feddit.de has a button for copying the !community@instance.tld , so just copy and paste them into your instance. protip, if you search for an community and it says “no results found”, the act of searching actually adds it to your instance. Just refresh the page and it’ll show up.
protip, if you search for an community and it says “no results found”, the act of searching actually adds it to your instance. Just refresh the page and it’ll show up.
Oh interesting. Thanks!
This sites feature’s just needs to get rolled up into the codebase. This should just be part of search.