The way Lemmy works right now is you search a community in your instance for it to then get shown, so you need to first discover that community from elsewhere. With that in mind, what are some growing communities that you discovered that could get some more love?

  • Evan@lemmy.mlM
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    1 year ago

    Mastodon suffers from similar annoyances. I feel like this system could be improved, it’s pretty confusing for beginners. I support frontends rewriting links, I suppose (though I suppose there is the tricky issue of deciding what links point to the fedi. Maybe “!cats@midwest.social” should not be a link…)

    • preston@possumpat.io
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      1 year ago

      I agree, the copy->search user experience for exploring the fediverse is pretty terrible. For Lemmy at least, maybe any community ! links should automatically try to resolve on your instance? I also wouldn’t mind an extra little popup on hover, letting you choose to follow the link through to the original instance or have it search/open on your home.

      • Mac@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Which is actually funny when you think about it because that would be integral to utilizing the benefits of the Fediverse.

        It will get figured out in time.

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      1 year ago

      It doesn’t even work on mobile for me. I save posts for later to join on my desktop. Lol

    • _ed@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Most definitely, although with many of these projects its probably not a case of not wanting to make it easier, but simply that it hasnt been implemented yet. I generally tend to link so that people can check out the community being referred to -