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Browse instances and communities

Hi, I am wondering if there is any way to browse a specific instance and view the communities and info about that instance?

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  • There's a request on.github to add this functionality. Until then, use a search site. I'll link one when I wake up

    • https://www.search-lemmy.com

      You can do advanced filters on posts or communities. Feel free to provide feedback as well. I'm still working on the order of the results, etc...

      • Oh this one, it needs to be able to search all instances. I almost never want to search a single instance. I don't even know or care which instance I happen to be commenting on right now. Its all seamless with federation

        • Yes but what if you search and find a post that doesn't exist on your home instance? You'd be taken to a 404 page and can't do anything.

          But I've got an issue on GitHub for this. And just raised a PR on Lemmy to support the changes I need for this. But a reminder, once you can search all instances you may encounter 404s opening the posts that you find.

          • I haven't had that problem.

            Sometimes I need to reload the page, because it hasn't been indexed or something?

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