I’ve been annoyed by the “copy !communityname@server.host to your instance’s search” aspect of joining new communities. To make this more streamlined I created this extension to add a “Search on [myhomeinstance]” button on community pages. It’s currently submitted for approval in the chrome web store, which could take a few days, but you should be able to install it as an unpacked extension in developer mode today. Please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions.
It should be a difference, a little kbin icon appears on mentions of lemmy communities like “! communityname@lemmy.ml”
Edit: I didn’t expect for people to use it so soon, I will give you more information in a bit when I get to my pc
Edit 2: This is what you should see on “!communityname@lemmy.ml” type mentions. Is not working on kbin.social due to a bug but I will fix that very soon.