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It's easy to discover communities on my instance via the dedicated page in the hamburger menu. But let's say I want to follow a community on another instance, such as [email protected] . I might have found its name mentioned in a post or comment. When I click on the provided link, I'm thrown on that instances web page, from which I of course can't subscribe.

So what I instead have to do is to copy the description of the link and paste it in my instance's search bar. Which isn't easy, since it's a link, so there isn't even a straightforward way to select the link text without clicking the link. This seems very unintuitive and makes the process of joining a whole bunch of communities tedious. Is there a better way?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Weird. I absolutely expected [email protected] to take me to myinstance.tld/c/[email protected]. Surprised that it's a direct link.

Also, SwiftKey keeps automatically shifts punctuation to be attached to the preceding word, so exclamation tags are driving me bonkers. Just as an aside.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Seems like changing it to link to the local instance search for that community wouldn't be hard. Agree it makes more sense than linking to the community on it's home instance where (most likely) most can't interact with it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's even weirder is that from over here, on my instance, that link takes me to https://kbin.social/m/[[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) on your instance. So, something is funky

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Its just a markdown link so it can point anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Kbin might actually convert links to communities to the local equivalent. Kbin is different software and may just be handling that particular thing differently than Lemmy.

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

Yeah that happens to me as well, that's really bizarre