If I have an account on one instance [lemm.ee] is there a way to browse another instance [lemmy.world] locally without creating an account in that instance or going to my browser and typing in the url?
As far as I know, you don’t need an account on lemmy.world, with your current account you can subscribe to communities, vote, comment, etc., on all instances.
That’s not the point, and I was using lemmy.world purely as an example. If I see a new and novel instance, I’d like to be able to explore it locally (look at that instance’s posts and communities alone) within jerboa. Let’s say I’m into arts and crafts and there is an instance that focuses on that and I want to look around to see what people are talking about and if there is a community dedicated to cross stitch that looks like 8-bit supermario stills.
I don’t think it’s possible right now, maybe that could be requested on an app.
His point was that he wants to visit local feed of another instance we are federating with
This. You have to search for the community in the web interface using name@domain.com formatted. Once you open the community you can sub. Once subbed you will see the community in your sub feed like all the others.
Yup. The tricky part is making sure your server has that community in its cash. So if it’s not showing up, visit it on your browser and you should be able to see it in Jerboa. I personally just join communities on the web and then it just works on mobile.
“how”?
Slightly different but related issue here - how can I use Jerboa to subscribe to a community I ‘only’ have the link of, like https://some.instance/c/aCommunity?
Searching for ‘aCommunity’, ‘aCommunity@some.instance’ or putting the URL in the search field doesn’t show me any results.
I’ve noticed this issue with new communities. I’d suggest wait a few hours so the instances “sync” and the community shows up in search. If that doesn’t work maybe it’s a bug.
I was under the impression not all instances sync with all others ‘automagically’ (and that that’s by design); and also that’s basically what wintermute is for.
The communities I’m interested in are not only hours old.
