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Allow for the Explore rooms feature to automatically browse/add a Matrix server when the server part of the handle is provided
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Description
### Description
When trying to find chans/rooms through the field present in the "Explore room" panel, one could expect the search to be able to browse the directory listing and/or add, whether is it temporary or definitely the said server when the user input the server part of the handle like `:mymatrixinstance.com`.
I found out about this when, long time user of Mozilla's IRC, and now much less present, I wanted to list and search through all of the chans/rooms of their instance just by filling the field with `:mozilla.org`. It wasn't the case and only found out less than a dozen results.
### Steps to reproduce
Try to search for chans/rooms from the "Explore rooms" panel/field for a server/instance different from our own.
It will likely find no results or almost none.

### Version information
- **Platform**: web (in-browser) or desktop? Both.
- Latest version for both Web and desktop (1.6).
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