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Navigate to community on another instance? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Maybe I've just not figured it out, but it's there a way to navigate the subs on a different instance without switching accounts? Like going directly to [email protected]?

Example, I'm on lemmy.ca but I want to subscribe to /c/linux on programming.dev. I'm struggling hard to navigate to this community, as it's not turning up in search either.

Edit: I found it on search, but it's made worse by the fact that search is not showing the instance of the communities, so you just end up with a bunch of communities and a subscriber count based on your local instance, which means pretty much nothing

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

Try searching [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) in the post feed (not the left nav) and then Go to Community orr you could go to About Instance for programming.dev and hit Browse Communities and scroll until you find c/linux (about 7 down)

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

Both work great, thanks!

The View Communities is actually exactly what I've been looking for. It's not super intuitive to get to About Instance as you first need to find a community on that instance, but it works.

Even less intuitive is that there are two different searches that do different things. I'd definitely expect the sidebar search to be able to Go to Community as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Would be nice if there was a "search instance" somewhere. I tried to use the left nav one with the format when I first heard it was added and I was also surprised it worked on one but not the other

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

This is very useful, thank you for the information.

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

You can access it by formatting the link like this

/c/linux

[/c/linux](/c/[email protected])

That will make the link relative to your instance

For some reason if you put the entire community name with the instance in the link text it will not load in Connect for Lemmy, trying to find a user instead.

I'll try to flag it as a bug soon.

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

Doesn't that mean I need to post a comment somewhere with that content? I just want to navigate there.

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

I'm not sure how else you could get there unless subscribed while using the app.

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