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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Mickey_aeroplane@lemmy.world to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

I'm new to the Voyager app and I want to know how to browse another instance in Voyager ?

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[-] aeharding@vger.social 8 points 1 month ago

Use the all feed if you want to browse posts from everywhere.

If you want to actually connect to an instance without signing in, to view its local feed for example, you can go through the normal login process and login with empty credentials. It will prompt you to connect as guest.

[-] Mickey_aeroplane@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Thnx for the help.

[-] trailee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

go through the normal login process and login with empty credentials. It will prompt you to connect as guest.

Thanks for this tip - I never would have thought to try that if I hadn’t found this comment through a search. It’s a very unintuitive process, and it also seems buggy (I can’t do guest browsing on a server where I’m also logged into an account; instead of the guest option I get an error message demanding that I supply a username and password).

Have you considered making the guest browsing workflow more obvious at the join/login screen? Or perhaps better yet, providing a mechanism to see the list of default communities a server recommends? By that I mean whatever shows up in the communities list when browsing a server anonymously (such as viewing https://vger.app/posts/sh.itjust.works on the web).

But even that wouldn’t cover what I really want, which is to see a list of all communities on a server, so that if I notice one interesting federated community I can easily browse what other communities exist on the server that might also pique my interest. Maybe the thing I want is being able to put an empty “@server.tld” into the search box and be shown all communities registered there.

this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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