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/thecommunityyouwanttoview@lemmy.ml
But there is no https://lemmy.world/c/lemmy.ml <– this will return a 4040
Ideally there would be a https://lemmy.world/c/all@lemmy.ml or a https://lemmy.world/c/popular@lemmy.ml
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If you go to Posts/All, you will see all the local communities plus all the communities subscribed to by the instance. I don’t foresee every instance mirroring the content of every community from every other instance - storage and bandwidth would go through the roof.
Doing some reading + confirming with an instance owner, this is how it’s working now. You can click on the “Instances” link at the very bottom of the page to see who else your instance is connected to. An instance mirrors all content for all other instances its connected to.
Edit: correction, it’s mirroring all content from all communities that it knows about (that users have tried accessing), which is what I think you were saying in the first place.
Correct. Someone has to search for a community before the instance mirrors the community.
You can do that in the Jerboa app
edit: now that I understand the question, no you can’t
I’m on iOS so I’m SoL. But this is also a problem on desktop unfortunately.
But there is an all tab on the website?
Yup, but now try viewing all on lemmy.world or other lemmy instances from your home instance.
Yeah and I can see the posts from other instances in all? What else are you expecting?
/all on each instance queries posts from other instances, I’m hoping to be able to engage with content that’s popular specific to another instance from my home instance.
From my lemmy.world account, how can I tell what’s popular on each of beehaw, lemmy.ml and etc and be able to interact with those posts without having to leave my home instance?
Oh I see. A filter by instance feature would indeed be nice.
NOTE: this is for desktop, not sure about the various apps
you can go to lemmy.world main page > Posts > Local
that would show the top posts only from lemmy.world
if you want to see top posts from ALL of the lemmyverse, you can check:
lemmy.directory > Posts > All
There is a /all?
i wish!
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.
This should be filed as a feature suggestion on the GIthub repo. That way it will actually be tracked.
True, I will try to submit a feature request.
in the web, isn’t to enter the instance link?
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/thecommunityyouwanttoview@lemmy.mlBut there is no
https://lemmy.world/c/lemmy.ml<-- this will return a 4040 Ideally there would be ahttps://lemmy.world/c/all@lemmy.mlor ahttps://lemmy.world/c/popular@lemmy.mlThats just a subreddit if you’re looking at it like it’s reddit.
Best you’re going to get. It really needs to be integrated into the web ui.
Yeah, that sounds about right :(
