OP is referring to a feature of PieFed, which will autocomplete a community’s name if you go to ‘Add Remote Community’. It uses data from lemmyverse.net in the background, so the instance you’re searching on doesn’t have to actually know about the community beforehand.
I think OP refers more to the lack of autocompletion when you start typing !communityname in a post or comment or Piefed, compared to Lemmy where the autocompletion is there (and quite handy to be honest, especially for !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com and others)
I’ve no doubt that Lemmy’s particular auto-completion feature is very useful, but I still don’t think it’s what OP was referring to. The top-right frame says “I can find the exact unfederated remote comm” … the key word being ‘unfederated’.
On a lemmy instance that’s already connected with something like ‘yepowertrippinbastards’, starting to type it in a comment will indeed fill out the rest. Image from lemmy.world:
But if a lemmy instance hasn’t already connected with the community, it doesn’t have the info to autocomplete anything. Image from a dev Lemmy instance:
This is in contrast to PieFed, which for one particular screen, can autocomplete community names based on info from lemmyverse rather than its own database, so it doesn’t need to have federated with anything yet.
There’s pros and cons for each approach obvs, and I’m not super-invested in Lemmy vs. PieFed discussions right now, but I felt a strange urge to try to explain some week-old meme (and dick about with some new screen recording software). If you’re right and I’m wrong, then that’s okay too.
Though currently with Boost on PieFed it doesn’t search any unfederated-from-my-home-instance comms either and also requires me to enter in the full comm address
OP is referring to a feature of PieFed, which will autocomplete a community’s name if you go to ‘Add Remote Community’. It uses data from
lemmyverse.netin the background, so the instance you’re searching on doesn’t have to actually know about the community beforehand.Video demo:
I think OP refers more to the lack of autocompletion when you start typing !communityname in a post or comment or Piefed, compared to Lemmy where the autocompletion is there (and quite handy to be honest, especially for !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com and others)
I’ve no doubt that Lemmy’s particular auto-completion feature is very useful, but I still don’t think it’s what OP was referring to. The top-right frame says “I can find the exact unfederated remote comm” … the key word being ‘unfederated’.
On a lemmy instance that’s already connected with something like ‘yepowertrippinbastards’, starting to type it in a comment will indeed fill out the rest. Image from
lemmy.world:But if a lemmy instance hasn’t already connected with the community, it doesn’t have the info to autocomplete anything. Image from a dev Lemmy instance:
This is in contrast to PieFed, which for one particular screen, can autocomplete community names based on info from lemmyverse rather than its own database, so it doesn’t need to have federated with anything yet.
There’s pros and cons for each approach obvs, and I’m not super-invested in Lemmy vs. PieFed discussions right now, but I felt a strange urge to try to explain some week-old meme (and dick about with some new screen recording software). If you’re right and I’m wrong, then that’s okay too.
I guess we need to ask @cm0002@lemmy.world what they were referring to
It’s what @freamon@preferred.social was talking about lol
Though currently with Boost on PieFed it doesn’t search any unfederated-from-my-home-instance comms either and also requires me to enter in the full comm address
Thank you for confirming ha ha