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 !lemmy@lemmy.ml . 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?
Weird. I absolutely expected !lemmy@lemmy.ml to take me to myinstance.tld/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml. Surprised that it’s a direct link.
Also, SwiftKey keeps automatically shifts punctuation to be attached to the preceding word, so exclamation tags are driving me bonkers. Just as an aside.
What’s even weirder is that from over here, on my instance, that link takes me to
https://kbin.social/m/!lemmy@lemmy.mlon your instance. So, something is funkyIts just a markdown link so it can point anywhere.
Kbin might actually convert links to communities to the local equivalent. Kbin is different software and may just be handling that particular thing differently than Lemmy.