I like having piefed pull in peertube channels.

A few thoughts on this.

When I go to add the channel I have to add ! In front. It even errors and tells me I need it. So if it has to exist can Piefed check, if it's not there, Piefed manages it and adds it? It'd be a bit better end user experience.

Building on, having a way to do this is nice, but can it be merged into search? So someone searches name@server if it doesn't find an exact match can it just reach out and come back with it and say it's not added, but we can add it for you by clicking this button.

Idk the technical challenges, but this would also be massively helpful in smoothing out the experience.

This would be a great usability improvement

I agree that the current way of trying to pull in remote things is pretty tedious. I'm running my own PieFed and PeerTube instances, and it's a pain getting them federated when I make a new channel. Takes me several tries with the current variety of menus.

That is doable, yep.

For now though, at https://piefed.social/search there is a 'add remote community' button at the bottom of the page. Easy to miss on mobile, no doubt.