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Following remote communities is hard. (beehaw.org)
submitted 2 years 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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[–] xeronine@lemmy.biz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been going to homeinstance.tld/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml and subscribing that way.

I swear there has to be a better way though..

[–] luxyr42@lemmy.dormedas.com 1 points 1 year ago

As I understand it, there is a way to format links that will open the community on your current instance. I've seen people say that, anyway, but don't know what that link format is.