is there a way to see the front page or list of communities of an instance without getting out of the instance you're currently in ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by 0uterzenith@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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For now, I can only visit a community from another server by searching or opening a post from that server, if I open it in the post's original server or if I open their site, I'll be in another lemmy instance and I'll have no account there, so I can't really interact.

So, I'm curious if is there a way for me to browse lemmy.ml for example (or other servers) and see all the trending posts there or browse their communities without me leaving lemmy.world

Basically, looking for a way to turn my current instance to be like a "window" that I can use to look into another instances.

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[-] curiosityLynx@kglitch.social 1 points 1 year ago

Don't know about lemmy, but on kbin you can go to /d/lemmy.world to see what appears to be something like a frontpage of lemmy.world.

It's far from perfect though:

It only shows that instance's local communities. In other words, you wouldn't see that a lemmy.world community is trending on feddit.uk without going to feddit.uk itself.
If the lemmy server has the concept of a downvote that would reduce a post's rank, that isn't information transmitted to other instances.
I might be mistaken here, but if I understood correctly, it only shows posts from communities that at least one user on your kbin instance is subscribed to.
It will most likely be a bit out of date
If the list of (de)federated instances isn't the same for your instance and the target instance, the upvotes of entire instances might not be counted for one of them.
In future, some instances might determine ranking solely based on local votes.

[-] 0uterzenith@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don’t know about lemmy, but on kbin you can go to /d/lemmy.world to see what appears to be something like a frontpage of lemmy.world.

This is exactly what I'm talking about, still a little janky maybe because the activitypub sites (Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon) don't work quite the same? Maybe if it's between the same--what's the term? software?--like kbin to kbin can be more seamless.

Hope Lemmy can implement something similar in the future