I'd like to add to this request that we allow searches by instance, or be able to view all communities within a particular instance. I sometimes hear about a new instance and want to see all the communities within it. Or I'm curious what new communities lemmy.ml might have and want to quickly view all their instances. Initially I tried to search "@lemmy.ml", hoping that would work, but alas it did not. Just a thougt that feels related to this one!
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There is a "3rd party" tool available on the Feddit.de instance, called browse.feddit.de. It's basically a full list of all communities on all instances. There you can also see what instance federates with other instances.
It's not available in the app unfortunately, but you can at least somewhat discover what communities are available that way.
I hope this helps ๐
Is there an easy way to subscribe to a community outside of my instance once I found one on browse.feddit.de, preferably on my phone?
Edit: replaced sub with community
Ideally, the browser.feddit.de should have clickable links. Then on Android, Jerboa should register intent of such links and ask if the user would like to subscribe.
I think if someone else in your instance has subscribed to a community on that other instance, then you should be able to search up your desired community in the app itself. Otherwise the url needs to be something like myinstance/c/newcommunity@otherinstance, that will let you browse to the community from within your instance and then you can subscribe.
Yes you can! You search via the communities tab on navigation bar.
See my poorly made instruction screenshot. Keep in mind, it might take a second based on your instance.
But when I search for Python on Jerboa, I only get !python@lemmy.ml as only result, but when I search on browse.feddit.de I get !python@sh.itjust.works (among others).
Edit: Jerboa interprets these links as email addresses. Can I do anything to change that? What should a link to a community or an instance look like?
Fun fact, you are on the same instance as me.
But it's probably because no other user on our instance has joined a community on sh.itjust.works. That means that federation is possible (meaning, data can be exchanged) but no data is actually exchanged. Since there is "no need". So the moment, the first one user takes the plunge and joins a community on sh.itjust.works, data will be exchanged and this "problem" is resolved.
Copy and pasting the name in my instances search bar works for me.
I might have misunderstood you (or maybe it's different on PC), but there's a list of all Lemmy communities available already: click on the Communities word at the top of the page:
I was talking of the app Jerboa, not the Web browser (i assume that's the Web browser you are showing). But yes I could use the Web browser for this