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?

  • Krusty@feddit.itEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You’re right, but Mastodon already has lifted some of those problems (because they had funding and energies).

    Also if you need it, I know of this extension that’s being developed that could the exact problem you’re referring to: FediFetcher. It’s still being developed but I think it’s going to be very useful

    Edit: I also heard about this one, it looks cool: Simplified Federation