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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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[–] lmorchard@links.decafbad.com 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's even weirder is that from over here, on my instance, that link takes me to https://kbin.social/m/[!lemmy@lemmy.ml](/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml) on your instance. So, something is funky

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Its just a markdown link so it can point anywhere.

[–] hybridhavoc@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Kbin might actually convert links to communities to the local equivalent. Kbin is different software and may just be handling that particular thing differently than Lemmy.

[–] Garrathian@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that happens to me as well, that's really bizarre