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Instead of just searching the specific name of a sub what if I want to see every sub that's contained within an instance such as lemmy.world for example no I'm not part of lemmy.world but as part of the instance I'm a part of I can see every sub under it in a neat list can you only do that if you're part of the instance?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Tesseract lets you browse the communities on remote instance. AFAIK, that's one of few Lemmy frontends that offer that feature. Wish some other frontends would steal that feature from me.

Since the requests it uses to fetch communities from the remote instances are unauthenticated, it won't show you any that are marked NSFW.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Since the requests it uses to fetch communities from the remote instances are unauthenticated, it won't show you any that are marked NSFW.

Thanks for pointing that out. I had noticed that it was omitting nsfw and meant to ask you at some point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yep, API limitation, so less a "won't fix" and more of a "can't fix right now".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I will add to others' comments, that although this is the default on the communities list, make sure the "Local" option is selected to see all communities on the specific instance or "All" to see all communities the instance federates with (in other words, all the communities it allows access to)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Edit: for a better method, see this comment below


You would need to navigate to that instance on desktop

For example, as others have said:

You can't see it from your instance because not every community will be pulled. A community only starts federating to your instance after someone on your instance subscribes to it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A community only starts federating to your instance after someone on your instance subscribes to it

That sounds like a really bad way to do this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

If not, someone could just set up a rogue instance, create fake communities on it, then start pushing a million pictures per minute to every Lemmy instance, exhausting their resources

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is possible using lemmyverse.net, I added a comment below

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks! That's much easier

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy isn't focused on everyone seeing everything but on keeping corporate interests and power tripping admins out. The idea is to encourage as many people as possible to run their own instance of Lemmy both to share the infrastructure costs and limit the power each instance holds. Keeping hosting costs down is why instances don't pull from communities nobody is subscribed to.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

An easier way is to use http://lemmyverse.net/communities

Set your home instance using the home icon on the right

Select only the target instance with the instance filter

Now you can see only the target instance communities, and clicking on them will open them on your home instance

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also, on most instances NSFW communities are listed only if you are logged in and enable such content on your profile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So is there a way to see those? A good example is lemming.online, which you can’t sign up for. The only alternative I’ve found is browse by new and just wait to see what communities pop up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

https://lemmynsfw.com/communities ?

Not sure what other NSFW instances off the top of my head. I think lemmit.online mirrors different subreddits, so maybe some NSFW options there

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Just click on the instance name in the app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Lemmy-ui should have a communities button where you can see all the communities for that instance.

https://lemmy.world/communities