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?

    • BarbarianEnglish
      19·
      2 years ago

      If you’re the first person to subscribe to a community from your server, what you need to do is go to the community search, switch from “Communities” to “All”, then paste in the full URL (https://lemmy.ml/c/worldbuilding)

      I know it’s not great, but keep in mind that Lemmy just increased their userbase by 12-fold overnight and it’s a 2-man dev team. This isn’t some glossy corporate product, and there will be teething issues.

      • DudePlutoEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        Oh that’s not too bad of a workaround, thank you so much!

      • netburnr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I always enjoy watching small teams completely run circles around giant companies. Y’all are doing great, we all thank you.

      • jmsw22English
        1·
        2 years ago

        Thank you so much for this comment, I knew I had to do something along these lines, but this was the only clear explanation of the process!