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?
You can (potentially), you just have to find it on your instance’s community tab (it will display the communities hosted in your lemmy.ml as well as external ones it’s “federated” to), you can’t directly go to that instance’s site and subscribe though. If it’s a community from an instance not federated your outta luck though
That only shows the communities that someone from your instance already subscribed to, no? At least that’s what I assumed because the user subscription counts were different if I’d look at a community from my instance, or from its local instance.
I believe this is true.