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Following remote communities is hard. (beehaw.org)

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

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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] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You also have to create a new account for each instance. At very least I feel as though some centralized account orchestration needs to happen.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

This is not true. You can subscribe to a community on beehaw.org even if your account is on lemmy.ml. That's what this post is about, that the process for doing that is unintuitive.

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

..that would defeat almost the entire point of being federated and decentralized.