Right now, we are only able to view an instance’s specific community, but I’d love to be able to view what’s popular in that instance, especially that I do not know what communities that instance has.
EDIT And this is where it gets confusing…
If you want to view another instance from your home instance you need to do https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
But there is no https://lemmy.world/c/lemmy.ml <– this will return a 4040
Ideally there would be a https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] or a https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
Your post goes pretty deep into technical specifics but is pretty on what you’re trying to accomplish. The specifics ways you are trying to discover communities don’t work today, if you want to know how people are successfully discovering communities today, check out https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/61827.