A super helpful feature that PieFed (a new fediverse thread aggregator like Lemmy & Kbin) has is an “Add Remote” button on its communities page. This button allows you to get a community on another instance to appear on your PieFed instance (and thus get the PieFed instance to start getting posts from that community).
Here, for example, I use it to get /m/kbinStyles to appear on piefed.social.
- The “Add Remote” button at the top of the communities page.
- The “Add Remote” interface.
- Typing in “kbinStyles@kbin.social” to add /m/kbinStyles to piefed.social’s community list.
A dedicated button & interface like this would be super nice to have on Kbin, as it’d help a ton with scenarios where someone’s created a new community on Lemmy and you want it to federate over here. Currently, you can just type the community address in the search bar, but a dedicated UI would make this a lot clearer and more intuitive.
oh yep, its confusing.
i think an elegant solution would be a ‘+’ link on the subscribed side-panel, which could popup a single textfield for you to paste or search in., which then redirects you to either the newly created sub, or the failed search results. so basically what you requested. this kind of thing is more cosmetic than anything as all those bits already exist…might be trivial to implement.