Jerboa also needs a lot of improvement with following links. Right now, if I click those links in your comment that are memes@lemmy.ml, my phone assumes they are email addresses and opens my email app.

100% agree. People keep posting communities but manually having to watch for each one is tedious when you’re trying to add a bunch at once

I expect some innovation in this regard in the next few months. Rexit will have a big short term influx to the fediverse that will die down, but hopefully some that hang around are the developer types who are being shafted by reddit.

Big upvote. I figured out how to follow other communities from clicking the community tab at the top and looking at the URL. But it shouldn't be this hard. It should be way more seamless.

There's two things I wish this had:

• (This is your suggestion) Lemmy websites and apps should automatically attempt to show external communities within their own website if possible, so that sharing a community from this one will still allow you to join up without further navigating

• When seeing a "subscribe" button on another website, instead of it assuming you want to subscribe from the site itself and telling you to log in, it should first check if you're not logged in, and if you're not, ask if you want to subscribe to it from another instance if it finds any browser cookies for other Lemmy communities.

With that said, both of these might be against the goals or require the cooperation of an instance, so if we ultimately end up not getting it, well, it's fine-ish.

Any idea if there is a delay in community searching? Someone mentioned a newly created community (1 hour ago) on sh.itjust.works and I searched on lemmy.world for it and nothing but I can visit it directly.

@ernest could this work on kbin as well?

That would be very nice indeed

Try this: https://browse.feddit.de/

I’ll agree that fetching a new community is much more awkward than it should be.

You can do that as soon as your instance knows about that community.

Actually that's a great idea! I should add that info to the sidebar of mine.

Yes. Searching will have it appear but subscribing means comments and votes will start syncing over.

You should see it on the top right on the page, i take a screenshot if that doesn't help

Bottom bar. The list icon next to the home icon let's you search on Jerboa.

Unfortunately, searching for comms which your server doesn't know yet, is not yet possible in Jerboa. But things are improving quickly.

From what I heard, no (but the reverse is possible)

Not really. There shouldn't be a delay at all. If it doesn't work something is broken down or you aren't using the correct syntax

Make sure you search on ALL (not just communities) and write it like !name@sh.itjust.works

I have in fact noticed a 1-2 minute delay when searching for a completely fresh comunity from lemm.ee. Initially the search turns up 0 results, but trying again in a minute will find the community.

This has been changed with the latest version of Lemmy. Try this link: /c/aviation@lemmy.ml and check over at lemmy.ml/instances to make sure your instance is not blocked. (It's at the very bottom, I just checked for you and it doesn't look like it).

Edit: your instance is using an older version. Searching should still work. Try a couple of times. Make sure the search page is /search and use no filters