I noticed that some instances put a registration wall behind their communities. If you are registered in instance A, you can search for a specific community in instance B but cannot see the full list of communities there. Is there a workaround (besides asking someone from B to give a list of the instance)?
Currently no, there’s no way, here’s the issue discussing about this
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2951The only way i know of personally is go to the target instance and click "communities
You can use https://browse.feddit.de/ and instead of searching for a community, enter the instance (enter “lemmy.ml” for example) and then it should give you a list of all communities in that instance
I haven’t found it necessary to register to see the list of communities on another instance. I just went to that instance in a browser and clicked on ‘communities’ to see the list.
Instance A needs to be informed about each community on instance B (by searching for them in instance A) before they will list on instance A.
There is https://browse.feddit.de/, but it doesn’t have everything (missing lemmy.ml for one). And showing every community on one instance would require unselecting every since other instance.
Why can’t you go to instanceb.com/communities to see the community names? You don’t need to be logged in.
You should be able to see the community list even when not logged in by visiting their instance and clicking Communities -> Local, unless they’ve somehow blocked that. (For instance, if I go to lemmy.ml and click Communities, I can see plenty of communities that don’t show up under the ‘All’ communities list on my local instance.)
I haven’t noticed it. Can you provide an example?
Haha, you got me. Yeah, they are mostly the nsfw communities. But what is a man without his urges and what is an instance which can’t list its communities? It’s just weird.
Which specific nsfw communities? So I can, you know, avoid them.
Surely I’m not here to judge 👍
Make sure your account has ‘show nsfw content’ turned on to view nsfw communities your instance knows about in the search.
Yeah, that is already turned on. That is part of what made me confused.
Too bad that’s the only thing being turned on as of now eheh
