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Is there a way to exclusively browse another federated server's content? (lemmy.world)

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

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I just checked out sh.itjust.works, and I'm interested in some of the topics on their homepage, but in order to comment, I need to go to lemmy.world, search the specific community on sh.itjust.works, find the topic, and then comment.

It'd be neat if we could just rote filter by a certain server. Is that possible?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks! I understand that part but I’m wanting to browse all the communities on that instance from my instance so I can pick and choose which to subscribe to.

In other words: Is there a default /c/all or will that just vary depending on if they have a base community setup?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh, I see. Browsing their communities has to be done on their instance on the Communities page, I believe. Then yeah, you'd have to copy the community name and then add it to a URL from your instance.

You could browse their "all" by going to their home page and switching from "subscribed" to "all" in the selector above the posts.

The "all" for the instance you're on is determined by whatever instances that instance is federated with. There's a link for that list down in the bottom-right of each instance. It says "Instances".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok got it. I think most instances seem to have a “main” community that is subscribed to everything local, but it’s kinda difficult to browse and subscribe to remote communities from being logged in on lemmy.world without switching back and forth to the remote instance if that makes sense.

For instance (pun intended) if I wanted to cherry pick different communities from lemmy instance A’s local stuff, while I’m logged into lemmy instance B, and lemmy instance A doesn’t have a “main” community where I can see everything from lemmy instance A then I have to switch back and forth.

It’s not too difficult especially on desktop but I kinda wish I could have ‘lemmy.world/[email protected]’ and it would show me everything that is local to beehaw in one feed. I understand that might not make sense design or philosophy-wise though.

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

Yeah, that would be rad. Or even just more columns for the communities on the "all" tab of the communities page, and make it sortable.

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

Here is the list. Copy the URL of whichever one you want to subscribe to, go back to your lemmy.world tab, go to communities and search for that URL (change all search options to "All"). Then click through to the federated link and subscribe. Lemme know if an of this is unclear.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So I just tried this and pasted https://sh.itjust.works/c/imageai into Lemmy.world/communities and got zero results. Searching imageai worked, but that’s all a bit clumsy. Is that what you meant?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From what I understand there is a bug currently where /communities won't find it you have to search all to find it