Not mine, just cross-posting.
you know what I really wish, some easier way to be able to subscribe to a community on a remote instance from your own account. Like a shared login or some browser extension that sees you’re on a lemmy and allows you to subscribe from your account back home
maybe I’m using it wrong, but right now If I’m browsing lemmy explorer and find a community on a lemmy.ca, I have to copy it then go back to my local lemmy where I have my account to add it
What you’re describing is one of the root issues with the current system. It’s the same reason that if your instance goes down, your account and history go with it. I’d love to see an implementation of some sort of account awareness like you said, which could also make it easier to backup history to another instance in the event that your primary goes down.
It’s the main reason for mastodon feeling so off. Subbing to a community is something I can deal with, but having a network where you need to follow individuals and the way of doing it is cumbersome sucks. All of these places would benefit greatly if there was a solution.
I’d be interested in something like a lightweight CDN/replication with OAuth2 for logging into other instances. Each instance ‘replicates’ your original account but isn’t itself the master. One can be promoted to master in the event of an outage effectively migrating your account.
Would make for some difficult security considerations given a rogue instance could attempt to hijack authority.
I’m not much of a programmer and my free time is too limited to move quickly, but the functionality looks possible based on the published frontend API. Someone will almost certainly beat me to it, but I am hoping to write a browser extension that replaces the blue “You are not logged in…” boilerplate text about how to subscribe to a remote community with a subscribe button that does the dirty work in the background for you.
that would be amazing! even just like a hover popup or secondary link to send me to the community but through my instance would help a lot
You can do exactly that. Use the search function at the top of Beehaw, specifically type in the URL of the community like this: !ttrpgs@lemmy.blahaj.zone
This way you’ll reach that community while still “on” Beehaw and can subscribe to it. From there, you can head to your subscribed communities from your profile to make new posts or whatever.I don’t think you understood what I was suggesting.
Use the search function at the top of Beehaw
I don’t use Beehaw (my instance is lemm.ee), but let’s pretend I do. My whole premise is I don’t always start there. Like if run into a community on Lemmy Explorer or some other site (maybe a google search?), I can easily find myself on a community on a remote server.
For example, can you click here: https://lemmy.world/c/nostupidquestions
What do you see? Any way to subscribe for you? It just tells you to go back home and search for it I would love there to be a browser extension or plugin that automatically recognizes the community’s instance and address and sends it back home to Beehaw for you to subscribe. Can be via API or just redirect you to Beehaw’s view of it
This is huge. Now take this data and tag each community with the closest subreddit and use the api to build a thing where you can plug your reddit user and Lemmy user to recreate your reddit account on Lemmy
🤯
Blows my mind that a good chunk of this just didn’t exist a month or two ago
What does the exclamation mark do e.g. in this?
From my understanding, it’s an indicator that differentiates Lemmy links from email addresses.
If you follow the link conventions, !technology@beehaw.org should link to a Lemmy community, rather than open a new email compose window.
Whould be nice to have a similar syntax that links that community as reflected in the current user’s current instance.
There is one but you gotta manually apply it atm and it doesnt work on the android app at least. if you link to “/c/community@instance.com” and have it as a hyperlink it will go to that community from your instance. Thats what the person you replied to did, if you check their comments source
650 servers?? they were just a bunch when I joined a week ago, that’s a crazy growth!
p.s thanks for crossposting, site is very useful
I personally don’t understand what’s wrong with communities tab, it seems to give a pretty similar list to this when you apply filters looking for the most popular of all communities.
If no one in my instance has subscribed or looked for a community, I won’t be able to find it with the search unless I have its address.
the click to copy feature is neat
Sweetest cherry pie!
Oh thanks, it was very useful :D
This is awesome!
Dope!
