I looked up a list of Lemmy World instances and signed up for a bunch, but how do I see everything at once in one app instead of downloading one for each instance? I am new to what the kids call “federation.” Thank you.
You only need to sign up for one instance. What app are you using or is it the browser?
I use Liftoff for at least Lemmy World. I used the browser to sign up for each individual instance and get approved because Liftoff only recognizes Lemmy World.
You can just search for something like Android and it’ll show all the communities including the instance it’s on and join; you don’t need multiple logins.
The app I use, wefwef, also can view all communities in the feed along with your subscribed or just local instance communities. I’d assume liftoff is similar but I’ve never used it.
Liftoff works with multiple servers. Go to account, gear in the top right, accounts, menu in bottom right, add server.
I will try that later. I have to go back and see which ones I signed up to.
Lemmy.world is just the (only) pre-configured Lemmy instance. But you can add more yourself, e. g. your home instance where your main account lives.
You can add more instances, but don’t have need to sign up on each. Now the cool thing, that makes LiftOff special. You can switch to one of those instances and browse them to view only their local communities or all that are available on that instance. You don’t need an account for this, but you can’t vote or reply directly. However, Liftoff offers to switch to the copy of the same post/comment you’re viewing, that lives on your home instance, where you’re signed up, so you can vote or reply.
You could (but don’t have to) sign up on these other instances. Usually you pick an instance you like most to sign up, then browse the copies (= federation) of other instances that are on your home instances.
But LiftOff allows you to easily browse other instances directly (no copies), like some travel mode. Sign up on these other instances and you have a holiday home there. By this you can e. g. keep your personas separate from each other.
The switch feature is also very handy if you simply want to browse an instance that’s defederated (= no copies of posts/comments are shared) from your home instance.
You only need to sign up for one instance.
It would be so nice if this were true.
You need to sign up with every instance that isn’t federated with an instance you’ve already signed up for.
So, for example, if you have a Lemmy.world account, and you want to subscribe and post to a community hosted by beehaw.org, you also need to create and maintain a beehaw.org account.
As the fediverse gets more mature, news of de-federation between big/popular instances becomes more common.
If there’s content at beehaw that a user wants to subscribe to and comment on, then it’s more than just beehaw’s problem, it’s also makes it the user’s problem…and that means creating and maintaining logins on multiple servers.
Can’t you sign up to communities in other instances without signing up to that instance?
That’s what I’ve done, but I’m also new so not sure if I’m doing anything right at the moment. 😂
You don’t need to sign up for each instance (server). You only need to sign up for one. When you login to that one and search from it, the results will include things from other instances (servers) as well.
And if a search result is a community (subreddit), you can subscribe to it as well. They will show up in your feed next time you refresh. If a community says “subscription pending”, just ignore it. You are already subscribed.
Do you mean that you have subscribed to communities on your chosen instance (Lemmy.world) if so you can view a feed of all these communities…including any you have subscribed to on other instances…
Hi,
I think this is one of the things we need in a primer that is prominent wherever people talk about lemmy/kbin/meta verse in general.
You only need to sign up to one instance. It helps if they have the communities you want already there but if they don’t, you can still access them.
I cannot comment for lemmy but on kbin there’s a search icon and you can just type community@instance. For example this community on a remote instance is fediverse@lemmy.world. I’m reading your comment and typing this from my own kbin instance. It’s how this was designed to spread the load.
So pick one to stick to and add all the communities there.
If you have more questions, ask away.
Op, try presding this teo communities and subscribe just to check it’s working properly
After you verify they are working feel free to unsubscribe of course.
Edit: after reading it again I’m a bit confused to what your problem is, so here is a quick run down of jow things should work.
From your own account, use the search bar to search for a community in another instance, there try to see button for about community (it might be different on each app) and lastly press subscribe. From yhere, all your subscriptions should appear the same regardless of where they come from.
The pending thing is just a weird bug. For all intents and purposes you are subscribed and you will able to see it in your Subscriptions feed.
Not really, you probably can already see the posts on your frontpage feed (which is exclusive for your subscribed communities) and it also already should appear on your subscribed list.
And as the other user said, it is a bug that it appears as pending. At least on desktop when it days that I reload the page and press the subscribe button twice and it fixes, alternatively on the app “connect for lemmy” I have never seen the issue. But regardless it’s not really a problem
Log in to an instance. Search for specific communities using the following format:
communityname@instanceurl
Subscribe.
Alternatively, you can use the “all” filter to see content from all instances that federate with yours.
Update: the format I described above is optional. Just search by community name and you’ll find it.
