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[solved] Subscribing to a community on a different instance is so annoying! (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Hedup@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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So far for me the process is very convoluted:

  1. I go to https://browse.feddit.de/ and find the community.
  2. Then I need to copy it's name.
  3. Then I need to go to my particular instance (lemm.ee)
  4. Then I type manually in my browser address bar lemm.ee/c/
  5. Then I go back to https://browse.feddit.de/ and copy the address of the original instance of the community.
  6. Then I go back and add the original instance address to already typed thing in step 4 like this lemm.ee/c/@
  7. Then I can finally subscribe!

Oh my God! Please, tell me there's a better way of doing this!

EDIT: There is a better way! Solution is to ... use the search function in your instances home page and select community (if it exists already) and search. This way I don't need to go to browse.feddit.de anymore. And links will take me straight the the communities "reflection" in my own instance, where I can subscribe.

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[–] miv403@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

if there was kind a data export feature. maybe we could export list of subscription list then we can import to other instance. it could be like mastodon migration.

[–] Hedup@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mean like when creating another account on a different instance?

[–] miv403@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

yes. i know it is not your problem's real solution. but it could solve someway and cover up another lack of feature. i wanted to draw attention to another problem and make a different aproach for your problem.