In the image example, I’m logged into my instance. I learn about another instance and want to find out what communities are on it. The search feature does nothing here. Am I typing it wrong? Is there a better alternative for exploring new communities while logged into my instance?
Both?
Well, the feature doesn’t exist yet, so I can’t answer your first question :) as for the second, history / chaining can be fetched, for example, lets say you receive a comment, and the parent commenter is from another instance. Or someone from a third instance comments on a post of a community you’re subscribed to. As long as that parent commenter is from an instance thats allowed (IE in the allowlist or open federation), it will pull it. Meaning the technology is already being used today, but hasn’t yet been implemented for this particular feature.
I think Lemmy Federate is a good tool for this.