How does one view the front page of another instance?
i.e. in addition to "subscribed", "local", and "all", there should be an option labeled "instance" that lets you view what would be "local" on that instance.
i.e. in addition to "subscribed", "local", and "all", there should be an option labeled "instance" that lets you view what would be "local" on that instance.
You just have to go to the instance and look at their "local."
e.g. https://lemmy.ml/
You won't be able to comment or interact unless you come back home to your instance though and look at the post/community from the place your user is.
That can be really awkward! So if I wanted to comment, I'd need to head back to my home instance and just to search for the thread I was looking at earlier. I know it's not the main usage model, but small things like this generate friction that make or break social media.
Yep! You're right. It doesn't help that people get confused because they get linked to a community on a different instance that references the instance domain (so it takes you to that server, where you are NOT a local user). I think community linking and link handling and also having a way to gently nudge users back onto their home instance while viewing content would be fantastic.
I was thinking this could be done with a "official" lemmy extension for Chrome/Firefox, where you can save your instance host and have it look for links that follow this format.
It would auto-change links from:
[https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy](https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy)To:
[https://{your host}/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml](https://{your host}/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml)Looks like someone has already done this for firefox (as of yesterday)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-link-redundant
Which looks like a copy of the kbin version...
https://addons.mozilla.org/af/firefox/addon/kbin-link/
I just tested it and it works, but it's only looking for specific types of links (example the link at the top right of a community like
!asklemmy@lemmy.mlNSFW communities are blocked from local when logged out, so viewing their local is incomplete.
I hope that comes eventually. Right now I browse an instance in another tab or window, then copy/paste the community name I want to join into the search on my instance.
The issue with that is that NSFW communities don't show up when logged out, and there isn't a good way to search or discover communities since https://browse.feddit.de/ is just a list.
@onlyforthisair I don't think you can. It's like I'm commenting on mastadon to you on lemmy.world you can only see and search communities and subscribe to them and see the comments and post coming from them. the front page is all the communities you subbed to. just like reddit
The trouble is discoverability, especially for NSFW communities that don't show up when logged out.