Memmy - An iOS client for Lemmy

2536 readers

1 users here now

View on GitHub

Join the Discord

Code of Conduct

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

teflocarbon

[email protected]

Feature request: Communities by Instance (lemmy.ml)

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

14 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I think it would be very useful to be able to browse communities by instance. For example I’d like to be able to search an instance name and get a list of all the communities @ that instance. It would help to get a feel for the vibe of a particular instance without having to leave the app, and also be good for community discovery.

Another way to do this would be to be able to browse the Local feed of another instance than your own, but I can imagine that this would be more difficult to implement.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

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

I don’t think this would be impossible to do. but for sure you would never get all the communities of ALL the instances… but only of those already connected with your instance.

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

I don’t see why not, if you call out to Beewaw you can get all the Beehaw communities without even being authenticated afaik. No need to get the user’s “home”(?) instance involved at all.

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

because there’s not just beehaw and lemmy.world. there are thousands of instances and there’s no way to know them all, unless you or someone else knows that instance and searches for it.

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

The hostname is part of the search query, and they all have the same api.

unless you or someone else knows the instance and searches for it

Yes, that’s the exact use case described in the post.