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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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[–] kosmo@satl.ink 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

At the simplest I feel a chrome extension or similar would be straightforward. A more native flow doing some sort of faux login/modal that could subscribe on the primary host would be better.

[–] hybridhavoc@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I use a browser extension to make this sort of remote interaction easier for Mastodon. Seems like having something similar for Lemmy would not be impossible. I'm not a dev though and wouldn't know where to start.

[–] workinkindofhard@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

But instead of Crome, Firefox