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"Lemmy Explorer" a new website to explore Lemmy communities and instances (lemmyverse.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not mine, just cross-posting.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

you know what I really wish, some easier way to be able to subscribe to a community on a remote instance from your own account. Like a shared login or some browser extension that sees you're on a lemmy and allows you to subscribe from your account back home

maybe I'm using it wrong, but right now If I'm browsing lemmy explorer and find a community on lemmy.ca, I have to copy the address manually and then go back and find it on my local lemmy where I have my account to add it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can do exactly that. Use the search function at the top of Beehaw, specifically type in the URL of the community like this: [email protected]
This way you'll reach that community while still "on" Beehaw and can subscribe to it. From there, you can head to your subscribed communities from your profile to make new posts or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think you understood what I was suggesting.

Use the search function at the top of Beehaw

I don't use Beehaw (my instance is lemm.ee), but let's pretend I do. My whole premise is I don't always start there. Like if run into a community on Lemmy Explorer or some other site (maybe a google search?), I can easily find myself on a community on a remote server.

For example, can you click here: https://lemmy.world/c/nostupidquestions

What do you see? Any way to subscribe for you? It just tells you to go back home and search for it I would love there to be a browser extension or plugin that automatically recognizes the community's instance and address and sends it back home to Beehaw for you to subscribe. Can be via API or just redirect you to Beehaw's view of it

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