So for instance I’m interested in all communities in the aussie.zone instance, and I can’t find a way to use the search function for that. I’ve tried searching for communities using the search string “aussie.zone” and I get nothing.

Then in the screenshot shown I tried searching for communities with just the string “aussie” and I got “Aussie [email protected]”, which is strange because all the community names there contain the substring “aussie” and I’d expect this search to find them.

Is this a bug? Am I doing it wrong? It would be nice if there was a way to browse all communities in a given instance easily, because when I find an instance I like, I want to be able to go through and find the communities I like just as if I was browsing local communities on this instance.

Also the copy-paste method, which is still extremely clunky, is broken for me. I it just has [email protection] which when clicked does nothing useful. I’ve tried the Lemmy Link addon but not only is that also a very slow and clunky method which still doesn’t let me browse by server, it keeps slowing down firefox so I’ve had to uninstall it.

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        Okay, great, I just saw your edit, so I’m following that guide now. I’m mostly on desktop but I’m looking for a good native android app as well.

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            Thanks! I’ve got the userscript working, so that’s a lot less painful now lol. I’ll take a look at those apps.

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                Oh okay, I see on lemmyverse you can filter by server using the search function when browsing communities, so that’s basically what I’m after.

                And no need to apologise, this has all been super helpful :)