if you’re a registered user on a server, when you click [Communities], there you can see
- [local] communities - Those created on your server
- [all] communities - Those local and also those already federated to your server
You can subscribe to a community of any server which your server can federate with. The list of connected servers you can find via the /instances link at the bottom of the page.
There’s an easy to use community search tool here https://browse.feddit.de/
If you’ve found a community you like to follow, translate the original URL to a federated URL
You do this by putting the community URL of the original server in the search bar; e.g.
(This search functionality is available in the web interface, but not yet available in the Jerboa app)
The result will list the federated URL. A federated URL has the form:
https://<your server>/c/<community-id>@<other server>
Visiting the federated link, and clicking [Subscribe] will make that community be federated to your server from now on. Your subscribed community will now also be listed under the [all] communities listing on your server.
Documentation etc can be found from their github page
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy