I’m curious to hear if you have any thoughts or ideas about this. As a developer I understand very well how Lemmy works, and cant tell at all what might be difficult or confusing.
I’m curious to hear if you have any thoughts or ideas about this. As a developer I understand very well how Lemmy works, and cant tell at all what might be difficult or confusing.
I think a way to search for new federated communities from your instance would be nice (unless I’m not seeing it in the UI). Pasting the community URL into the search works, but it’s a bit unintuitive. Perhaps a checkbox to search federated communities, or a dropdown of federated instances? Element for Matrix has an “Add a new server” option when you explore rooms, so something like that might work too. I guess I’m suggesting a little bit more of a discoverable UI.
I also think that this ticket here would be nice as well: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1540
You can also search for !community@instance.com, maybe that needs to be explained somewhere? The remote follow button mentioned by someone else should also help with this problem.
Nice! I didn’t know that. Maybe even just a button to bring up the search syntax would be helpful.