I find it awkward to go to another instance (say lemmygrad.ml) where I’m not registered to figure out if I like it or not.
Without logged in profile I cannot participate in the discussion, can’t upvote, subscribe to communities. To do all that I need to go to my main instance where I’m signed in and manually type address of a community on another instance. Only after that I can participate in it.
So I’d like to preview a federated Lemmy instance or at least list of its communities without leaving Lemmy.ml
Can I do that?
P.s. I realize I can preview separate communities on federated instance but can I preview the whole instance?
The closest thing I’ve seen to what you’re asking for was to be found on Lemmur, the android client. You used to be able to click on the instance attached to the user’s name which takes you to a page that showcases the said instance (sidebar, stats and list of communities).
Sadly, the app has been abandoned a long time ago and you can’t login anymore.