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Im pretty satisfied with Lemmy, but one thing i wish you could do is browse instances. Like i wish there was a way i could almost emulate being on my programming.dev account and see all that instances communities while im logged into this account. Afaik theres no easy way to do that without visiting some aggregator website. It would be nice to do within Lemmy itself.

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Some ability to move identity. I don't love the way you move accounts on Mastodon, but I appreciate that its possible.

[–] Blaze@discuss.online 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can do it from version 19.X, no? I just did it the other day.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nice to know 19 did something other than break federation the whole time I was off for the holidays.

[–] Blaze@discuss.online 2 points 2 years ago

Definitely not the best experience ever

[–] orangeNgreen@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Some of the Lemmy mobile clients allow anonymously browsing Instances.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sync used too. Hopefully it will again.

Edit:oh wth it works now

[–] stown@sedd.it 2 points 2 years ago

Some of the alternative web-UIs let you do that. Photon for sure and I think Alexandrite as well.

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] orangeNgreen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

On iOS, I know Arctic and Thunder do. I’m sure others do as well, just not sure off the top of my head.

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] AVeryCleverName@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I recently switched from jerboa to Voyager, how do you do it?

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Check out the section "Guest Accounts" in the release notes here: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/releases/tag/1.37.0

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Connect for Android does

[–] erranto@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] Deebster@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago

That would be good - I often want to see what an unfamiliar instance is about by checking out their homepage sidebar and local communities and currently it's several clicks and involves going directly to the site, effectively logging me out. At least the new versions have the new feature that sends you back to your home instance to subscribe.

The only plus is that sometimes the remote instance has interesting styles or other customisations that I wouldn't see unless i visited properly.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 8 points 2 years ago

I host my own instance and in the database I can see all the instances my instance knows. Why is this not in the ui? That way I could just click on an instance (as admin) and open up their homepage.

Also, why arent the community headers auto federated? If I federate with lemmy world, I want to be able to see any community on there and by subscribing to one community it copies the content (current situation).

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe it was discussed during the AMA ?
!announcements@lemmy.ml
Lemmy Developer AMA and Dev Update, 2024-01-26, 1500 CEDT here

P.S. : Yes, it was ask ... :
... Finding communities across instances ...
by : @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml

[–] Blaze@discuss.online 3 points 2 years ago

The web alternative interfaces Photon and Alexandrite allow it: https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/

Your instance might have those accessible directly (for instance LW has https://p.lemmy.world/)

[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The ability to "subscribe" to a thread so you could be told when anyone adds to the thread. I don't understand how people follow a thread without this. You would have to constantly be going back to it (over and over) to seeing if anything was added.

[–] Blaze@discuss.online 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use "New comments" for this

[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That sorts on the comments of all posts, not just the ones I am interested in.

[–] Blaze@discuss.online 1 points 2 years ago

Indeed, but there is no better option right now

[–] Blaze@discuss.online 3 points 2 years ago

Just remembered there is also this add-on to help you subscribe to communities in your own instance while browsing another one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-instance-assistant/

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br -1 points 2 years ago

At least now we have a modal that you feel with your instance domain.