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Following remote communities is hard. (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by Raincloud@beehaw.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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 !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?

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[–] Krusty@feddit.it 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This could be something about it, give it a 👍 if you have Github

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048

[–] anji@lemmy.anji.nl 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Having remote links load on my local instance so I could interact with them would be awesome. Even better if my instance would fetch a remove posts & comments so it would really look like one unified platform without missing remote information.

[–] Krusty@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmy is still on the very beginning of its existence. Mastodon and Misskey are more advanced but they were also born earlier. We can shape together how we want Lemmy to be, but it'll require time and patience :)

[–] anji@lemmy.anji.nl 2 points 2 years ago

Mastodon for all its sophistication has exactly the same limitations though. Linking to a post is a full URL which takes me to a remote instance where I can no longer interact. And boosted posts are missing replies if they have not been previously pushed to my instance. I realize there's some problems with a fetch model (extra server load) but it would be so nice if I could browse the entirety of Fedi from the comfort of my own instance without having to paste URLs in search bars.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you really want to improve this, make a pull request. We are already very busy.

[–] Krusty@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wish I could but I don't know if I can 😭 Do you suggest any simple guide to learn what's needed for contributing to lemmy-ui?

[–] Barbarian@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They've written this handy guide

[–] Krusty@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago

Cool, thanks! 💜