DNS is the phonebook of the internet and other networks.

Hadn’t heard of Bilmuri before. Thanks for mentioning them.

Be warry of advice given by strangers.

I have also found that sometimes you can browse to a remote community to get the federated subscribe option. I’m at lemmy.einval.org, but I can go to another community by browsing like this:

https://lemmy.einval.org/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

This doesn’t always work, and seems to require performing that search you mentioned first to make it work consistently. Then it can be browsed to directly.

I hope this is improved on in the future.