is there a way to see the front page or list of communities of an instance without getting out of the instance you're currently in ?
For now, I can only visit a community from another server by searching or opening a post from that server, if I open it in the post's original server or if I open their site, I'll be in another lemmy instance and I'll have no account there, so I can't really interact.
So, I'm curious if is there a way for me to browse lemmy.ml for example (or other servers) and see all the trending posts there or browse their communities without me leaving lemmy.world
Basically, looking for a way to turn my current instance to be like a "window" that I can use to look into another instances.
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yes, that's what's I've been using, and I know I can see posts from all instances if I just browse All instead of Local
what I'm kind of looking for (and wondering) is that a way to... uh, like, check? on another instance, and see what hot posts are trending there just on their front page without getting mixed and competing for places in /All
so for example, I'm here on lemmy.world, and after browsing a while I got curious on what's trending on sh.itjust.works, so I go to shi.tjust.works and I can see all the currently hot posts only on shit just works without me getting logged out because I have no account on shitjustworks.
in lack of better words, maybe emulating (or simulating?) a 'centralized' feel, ya feel me?
I don't believe there is a smooth way to do this at the moment without visiting the instance in question and selecting the Local feed.
You can use a link redirect script to then easily open those threads on your home instance, though.
yes, that's what i was curious about, it seems there isn't a seamless way to do this yet
Don't know about lemmy, but on kbin you can go to /d/lemmy.world to see what appears to be something like a frontpage of lemmy.world.
It's far from perfect though:
This is exactly what I'm talking about, still a little janky maybe because the activitypub sites (Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon) don't work quite the same? Maybe if it's between the same--what's the term? software?--like kbin to kbin can be more seamless.
Hope Lemmy can implement something similar in the future