>no way to preview the community without signing up This is incorrect. You click the "Discover Users" from the instance home page, and you can view (public) pr

>no way to preview the community without signing up This is incorrect. You click the "Discover Users" from the instance home page, and you can view (public) profiles and as well as posts that they have made. I agree that it would be better to just be able to view the local timeline.