How to view all communities from another instance? (lemmy.world)

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

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I was wondering if there's a way to view a list of communities from another instance, but still logged into my account. I could, for example, go to https://lemmy.ml/communities, but if I do, I'm no longer logged into my Lemmy.world account.

Now, I know I can see communities from other instances by going to the Lemmy.world communities list and sorting by all, but I don't know of a way to directly go into another instance's community list.

And I think I've heard that you can't see a community from another instance until people from your instance have "interacted" with it. I'm not sure exactly what that means. Is that just if they visit the community, or do they have to subscribe to it? Regardless, I'd have to imagine that you must be able to view communities from another instance in some easy way or else it seems like it would be really hard to discover other instances' communities for the first time.

Thanks!

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I do already know how to do that, but I'm mainly wondering about being able to view an entire other instance's community list. I mean, yeah, I guess I can work around that, and that is what I've been doing, but it's just a little clunky to have to go to another instance logged out, copy the url, and then go back in through my own instance. There's really no other way?

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

Yeah unfortunately that's the only way. browse.feddit.de has a button for copying the [email protected] , so just copy and paste them into your instance. protip, if you search for an community and it says "no results found", the act of searching actually adds it to your instance. Just refresh the page and it'll show up.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

protip, if you search for an community and it says “no results found”, the act of searching actually adds it to your instance. Just refresh the page and it’ll show up.

Oh interesting. Thanks!