Thanks; I’m still using Arctic, Mlem, and Blorp simultaneously, but I’ll keep thinking of more suggestions for Blorp, and hopefully it can come to surpass Arctic in terms of polish. 👍

Gladly; welcome to Lemmy!

I was on its TestFlight version until it was recently removed due to developer inactivity; unfortunate, because several of the features I had requested that were added weren’t on the App Store version. Arctic is still mostly working for now, but will probably break with the Lemmy 1.0 update, and thus I started looking for alternatives. Albeit not as good looking or customizable as Arctic, Mlem has the most features and best UI of the alternatives; I’m also trying Blorp now, which is a newer client with a developer open to feature suggestions at !blorp@lemmy.zip.

Unlike Arctic, both also support using a Piefed account as an alternative to Lemmy.

Most clients are the hobby project of a single developer who have limited amounts of spare time to implement a wide array of possible features.

As I mentioned in my other reply, one such client was Arctic for iOS, which albeit no longer updated, has a community search tool that enables community searching filtered by instance (i.e. the search term ‘dbzer0’ excludes news@lemmy.world and memes@lemmy.world and includes news@lemmy.dbzer0.com and memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com). I’d suggest opening a feature request in the community of your preferred client, clearly explaining the rationale behind the suggestion and its potential benefits, and with enough support it could theoretically get implemented.

To be able to scroll these community (sorry not channel) lists separately and independent of channels from other servers (sorry not instances) (and not only the channels on server I’m registered to):

I was mostly referring to this paragraph in the ‘Edit’ section near the top; apologies if my comment came across as condescending. It seems like the terms are being used interchangeably?

Edit: Also, reviewing the community search tool of the Arctic app for iOS, it does seem to sometimes be able to sort community names by instance if you enter the instance name as the search, such as ‘dbzer0’ only listing communities either on Lemmy.dbzer0.com or other communities mentioning dbzer0 in their community description. Unfortunately Arctic has seemingly been abandoned, so hopefully other apps will eventually implement similar functionality.

Are you trying to replace the words ‘community’ and ‘instance’ with ‘channel’ and ‘server’? Using non-standard terms makes it harder to understand what you’re asking for.

In terms of searching for communities, no app allows for searching for communities on an instance-by-instance basis, unfortunately. As someone else noted, you could try submitting such a feature as a feature request for your preferred client.