I’m still quite new - as I assume most of us are - to Lemmy, but this is one thing that has been getting in my way of finding new places to post or browse. Whenever I have to search for a community, I have to go to my original one, go into the search and find it there, so I can use that link to join. It is a pain in the ass.
Furthermore, the only way I know to browse all communities in a foreign instance is by doing it offline, and that is quite annoying as well (plus it won’t display hidden communities so I might not even see everything)
I have the feeling there must be an easy solution for this and I’m being obtuse, because it seems like a huge flaw in a spread out system such as this.
Unfortunately there isn’t an ideal solution for this. You will only see communities that at least user of your instance has subscribed to.
Posts in those communities will show up in your ‘All’ feed.
For all others is the best way an external community browser like this one:
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Oh, well. This is disappointing, to say the least.
Thank you for the cooperation.