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Following remote communities is hard. (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Raincloud@beehaw.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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It's easy to discover communities on my instance via the dedicated page in the hamburger menu. But let's say I want to follow a community on another instance, such as !lemmy@lemmy.ml . I might have found its name mentioned in a post or comment. When I click on the provided link, I'm thrown on that instances web page, from which I of course can't subscribe.

So what I instead have to do is to copy the description of the link and paste it in my instance's search bar. Which isn't easy, since it's a link, so there isn't even a straightforward way to select the link text without clicking the link. This seems very unintuitive and makes the process of joining a whole bunch of communities tedious. Is there a better way?

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[–] anji@lemmy.anji.nl 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having remote links load on my local instance so I could interact with them would be awesome. Even better if my instance would fetch a remove posts & comments so it would really look like one unified platform without missing remote information.

[–] Krusty@feddit.it 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy is still on the very beginning of its existence. Mastodon and Misskey are more advanced but they were also born earlier. We can shape together how we want Lemmy to be, but it'll require time and patience :)

[–] anji@lemmy.anji.nl 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mastodon for all its sophistication has exactly the same limitations though. Linking to a post is a full URL which takes me to a remote instance where I can no longer interact. And boosted posts are missing replies if they have not been previously pushed to my instance. I realize there's some problems with a fetch model (extra server load) but it would be so nice if I could browse the entirety of Fedi from the comfort of my own instance without having to paste URLs in search bars.

[–] Krusty@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're right, but Mastodon already has lifted some of those problems (because they had funding and energies).

Also if you need it, I know of this extension that's being developed that could the exact problem you're referring to: FediFetcher. It's still being developed but I think it's going to be very useful

Edit: I also heard about this one, it looks cool: Simplified Federation