Trying to sub to something from other instance is still pain in the ass tho. Especially when you're from a small instance so everything is somewhere else.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. I really hope (and honestly think) that third party tools (and Boost particularly) will improve discoverability as the ecosystem grows. Being able to see other servers' communities and Local feed will be a big step toward getting across the usability hurdle and getting more people here.

"Multireddits" (for lack of a better word), too. Maybe call them "community bundles." I'm subscribed to like five different (functionally identical) Star Trek communities, for instance; being able to group them all together and suppress/merge crossposts would be fantastic.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

To discover more communities I've been using to browse using Everything feed on Sync then subscribing or blocking based on the communities that get shown on my feed.

[–] TrustingZebra@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least on Liftoff it's incredibly easy.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With the normal web interface it's easy as well

[–] TrustingZebra@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The feature that Liftoff has is automatic redirects. So for example if I am lemmy.one user and want to subscribe to !memes@lemmy.ml, clicking the Subscribe button on the Liftoff app will offer to redirect me to lemmy.one/c/memes@lemmy.ml. On the web interface, you would have to manually go to that domain.

Also all the links in my comment automatically open in the Liftoff app.