but really this feature should exist regardless of autocomplete, just to reduce user confusion, so people are aware of how this stuff works instead of trying to click the login link and then failing to login and making an angry Reddit post about it
the fact that it presents a link to solve the user's problem means that the user will click on it, and currently Lemmy only shows the login link as the solution to the problem, so of course the users will click on that and then they're lost
Rather than being a form, the local software could just detect and do it all seamlessly.
the web browser won't grant access to cross domain storage
even if it did some people have multiple accounts, or may not have logged in on the current device yet, or might be browsing incognito/inprivate, so it would still have to be a form of some kind
this makes me think we should have a marker for communities that are inactive/dead or an easy way to hide them or filter them out in favor of more active communities
yea, but if Lemmy never adds a feature you really want, maybe we just switch to PieFed lol
the Lemmy devs are very much against merged comments
and they haven't even seemed to notice this thread yet (Rimu did though!) and just closed a ton of issues as "won't fix", meanwhile Rimu responded in a similar thread for PieFed within 2 hours of it being posted https://piefed.social/comment/7335468
although Lemmy does show crossposts already and v1.0 will have multi-communities
If I want to view the local on Communick.News, I can’t. I have to create an account there. And if I want to view the local on Lemmy.World I need to log out of your instance, and log in over here.
you don't actually need to logout/login, you can view them anonymously
even if you wanted to login to a different instance, you don't need to logout of the previous one
although you'll have to copy paste the post links to your own instance's search bar in order to vote/comment
I'm not really sure this is a software issue, if anything Lemmy probably handles new and small communities better than Reddit does. We just don't have as many users.
There are some moderation actions you can do from a different instance, I'm not sure which ones don't work or if they've all been fixed
You should create an account on a different instance and appoint yourself as moderator, at least for times when you don't want to get on VPN, like using an app on your phone
If you want to see smaller communities, sort by "Scaled"
If you REALLY want to browse All, try the "New Comments" sort, it's like old forums
But I rarely look at All, mostly just Subscribed or Local