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?

  • nutomic@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    It might be possible, but would be very complex to implement, and would increase resource usage of Lemmy a lot, as it would have to fetch all communities, posts, comments, users and votes which exist on another instance. The solutions suggested by @liwott@nerdica.net are much more reasonable.