I find it awkward to go to another instance (say lemmygrad.ml) where I’m not registered to figure out if I like it or not.

Without logged in profile I cannot participate in the discussion, can’t upvote, subscribe to communities. To do all that I need to go to my main instance where I’m signed in and manually type address of a community on another instance. Only after that I can participate in it.

So I’d like to preview a federated Lemmy instance or at least list of its communities without leaving Lemmy.ml

Can I do that?

P.s. I realize I can preview separate communities on federated instance but can I preview the whole instance?

  • liwott
    7•2 years ago

    Other platforms address that via a remote interaction button, that propose you to open the link on your own instance when you click the comment box.

    A nice workaround is to use your lemmy instance as a custom search engine : with my settings, I just have to add l/ at the beginning of a post’s url to open it in lemmy.ml