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I noticed that some instances put a registration wall behind their communities. If you are registered in instance A, you can search for a specific community in instance B but cannot see the full list of communities there. Is there a workaround (besides asking someone from B to give a list of the instance)?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can use https://browse.feddit.de/ and instead of searching for a community, enter the instance (enter "lemmy.ml" for example) and then it should give you a list of all communities in that instance

[–] denemdenem 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, they use the same instance A, instance B analogy I tried to cook up here. Glad it is already an ongoing issue!

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

Currently no, there's no way, here's the issue discussing about this
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2951

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

You should be able to see the community list even when not logged in by visiting their instance and clicking Communities -> Local, unless they've somehow blocked that. (For instance, if I go to lemmy.ml and click Communities, I can see plenty of communities that don't show up under the 'All' communities list on my local instance.)

[–] OldIndianMonk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do I subscribe to those? Manually copy paste and edit link?

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

No need to even edit it; rightclick the community link -> Copy Link Address, then go back to your instance, click the search icon, and search for that full URL.

For example, I can go to your instance, click Communities, copy the first one ( https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyworld ), and search for that locally. One of the results is for the community as a whole. I can then click that search result, and I'm taken to that community via my instance, where I can subscribe.

It'd be nice to have a cleaner path, but it's not too much of a hassle.

Also, note that once you subscribe, the community will show on your local Communities list (if 'All' is chosen) for everyone in your instance.

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

I haven't noticed it. Can you provide an example?

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

Haha, you got me. Yeah, they are mostly the nsfw communities. But what is a man without his urges and what is an instance which can't list its communities? It's just weird.

[–] neblem 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Make sure your account has 'show nsfw content' turned on to view nsfw communities your instance knows about in the search.

[–] denemdenem 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that is already turned on. That is part of what made me confused.

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

Too bad that's the only thing being turned on as of now eheh

[–] smelody_poop 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which specific nsfw communities? So I can, you know, avoid them.

[–] denemdenem 2 points 1 year ago

Mostly https://lemmynsfw.com There are some niche instances I saw thrown around but if you have a specific kink you have to look for yourself using the search feature. If you search for your kink and a community exists about it, it should show up.

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

Surely I'm not here to judge πŸ‘

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

Can't you just go to that instance and list the communities there? I don't think you need an account to list the communities

[–] neblem 2 points 1 year ago

Instance A needs to be informed about each community on instance B (by searching for them in instance A) before they will list on instance A.

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

The only way i know of personally is go to the target instance and click "communities

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

There is https://browse.feddit.de/, but it doesn’t have everything (missing lemmy.ml for one). And showing every community on one instance would require unselecting every since other instance.

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

Why can't you go to instanceb.com/communities to see the community names? You don't need to be logged in.

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

I haven't found it necessary to register to see the list of communities on another instance. I just went to that instance in a browser and clicked on 'communities' to see the list.

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

It's stupid but what I do now is just open the instance in a browser. Seems simple to implement as a view from your own instance, so I hope that happens.

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

This site lists them but in popularity order I believe.

https://browse.feddit.de/