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The only real issue I have is that searching for communities I know exist on other instances often fails, and opening them in their home instances doesn't offer a subscribe button to my host instance.
☝️ Exactly this.
While time will help, right now cross instance searching is infuriating, especially when you know what you're looking for.
With you on that one. Some small youtuber I have followed for years setup over on lemmy.world. I know it exists, but searching on kbin, no matter what I try, doesn't yield it to me. Unless it hits the frontpage or I am accidentally looking at the new feed the same moment the guy posts there, I won't really have a way to subscribe. Also don't really want to wrangle multiple accounts.
For Lemmy, if nobody has subscribed to a community locally, you need to search
https://instance.social/c/whatever
to get[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
. Once someone subscribes locally, searching[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
works.It's pretty unintuitive, especially when Kbin lets you search
@[email protected]
even if that community isn't on your instance yet.