i.e. in addition to “subscribed”, “local”, and “all”, there should be an option labeled “instance” that lets you view what would be “local” on that instance.

  • ewe@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    You just have to go to the instance and look at their “local.”

    e.g. https://lemmy.ml/

    You won’t be able to comment or interact unless you come back home to your instance though and look at the post/community from the place your user is.

    • kender242@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      That can be really awkward! So if I wanted to comment, I’d need to head back to my home instance and just to search for the thread I was looking at earlier. I know it’s not the main usage model, but small things like this generate friction that make or break social media.

      • ewe@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

        Yep! You’re right. It doesn’t help that people get confused because they get linked to a community on a different instance that references the instance domain (so it takes you to that server, where you are NOT a local user). I think community linking and link handling and also having a way to gently nudge users back onto their home instance while viewing content would be fantastic.

        I was thinking this could be done with a “official” lemmy extension for Chrome/Firefox, where you can save your instance host and have it look for links that follow this format.

        It would auto-change links from: [https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy](https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy)

        To: [https://{your host}/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml](https://{your host}/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml)