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Which app allows for browsing instances communities? (jlai.lu)
submitted 2 weeks ago by inlandempire@jlai.lu to c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world
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Something that's missing from my Lemmy experience is the ability to explore other instances and their communities. I've long settled on Thunder as my main app, but I can only seem to be able to browse local communities from my instance, and I like trying new apps every now and them.

I know Sync has that option, but I was wondering if other apps also allowed for something like this? To be clear I'm not looking for a search option, I'd like to be able to access the full list of communities from any instance.

If you guys have any leads, thank you!

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Tesseract does :)

https://tesseract.dubvee.org/communities

I wrote that in a long time ago, and it's made discoverability much better. It won't show this if you're not logged in, but it does indicate if you're already subscribed to a community, and you can also one-click subscribe to the remote communities your browsing. All without the copy, paste, search, "federating...", wait, click again, refresh song and dance.

Each post/comment also has a button to browse the communities of the home instance associated with it.

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 4 points 2 weeks ago

Oh right that's what my instance is using on p.jlai.lu

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thunder kind of allows this. When you go to add an account, you can add an "anonymous instance". This allows you to browse that instance as a non-logged-in user, including browsing that instance by local. Then, you can freely switch back and forth between your logged-in accounts and anonymous accounts whenever you want.

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's a very good trick I'll keep it in mind and experiment with it thanks a lot !

[–] akesi_seli@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

On Raccoon you can see the list of communities of an instance in the "Instance details" page, which can be accessed from the top bar menu in the community detail screen.

Moreover, you can explore instances in guest mode, both from user detail and community detail.

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 2 points 2 weeks ago

This sounds perfect, I'll install Raccoon right away, thank you!

[–] Alice@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sync i think

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is a feature that really should have been built into the Lemmy protocol years ago.
(Should allow browsing all communities also, not just SFW)