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By hopping around, do you mean changing your account to one on another instance, or viewing a list of communities on an instance, or something else?
I don't feel that changing accounts is necessary because of the magic of federation. But I don't know how to view a list of communities in an instance without leaving your home instance. That would be a cool feature, but is only really important when you're initially picking all your subscriptions.
Exactly, it's really inconvenient right now. And it's really important for the usability of what OP suggested.
If I simply link to a cool community I found, like https://beehaw.org/c/programming, you can't follow that link conveniently if you're from another instance.
And I highly disagree with only being important at the start. It's a big hurdle that stifles growth right now and in the future.
Yes you can subscribe to and read/reply to that community from any lemmy instance. You just need to add it if the instance doesn't already federate with it.
Go to 'Communities' at the top of your instance homepage then in the search bar put the url of the community you want to add. (example: https://beehaw.org/c/programming)
This next part is undocumented, and might just be a bug. But this is the magic part.
On the next page, change the top search dropdown from Communities to All.
You will see the community you want to sub to in the results. It will say something like.
[email protected] - 0 subscribersClick it, then on the top right pane click "Subscribe"
Done
Jesus Christ. I'm well aware of how you can subscribe to other instances. This is about convenience, with problems arising from situations like I described above.
No, that's not right You can follow any community from any instance with your account, doesn't matter where you registered your account. I just subscribed to https://beehaw.org/c/programming from lemmy.pt user account
this is buggy. Pardon the nsfw, but it doesn't work for gonewild@lemmynsfw .com