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.
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.
You don’t need to use loads. You can access all communities across all servers just using your single lemmy.world account (except beehaw)
Loads?
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Oh.
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.
I didn’t know that there was more than one Lemmy World app.
Exactly what gatob said. Lemmy is the platform that all instances (Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, etc) connect to.
All apps work with all instances. There’s jerboa, connect, wefwef (soon renamed to voyager thank god), liftoff, with more coming soon (boost & sync of reddit fame)
The plataform is Lemmy, lemmy.world is a server, there are apps for the entire plataform not only one server. That means than you can use any app to connect to lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org and so on
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.
That’s beehaw’s problem. They defederated with lemmy.world recently
Your statement may be true but that does not make it helpful
I doubt it was meant to be helpful. It’s just the reality. Just as a lot of people left Reddit for specific reasons. The same will probably apply to different instances choosing to block off large chunks of the fediverse.
Why? Doesn’t that undermine the whole strength of the Fediverse?
Not really. If the admins of that instance don’t want to federated, that’s their prerogative. They’ll gain or lose users based on that decision. The beauty of the fediverse is that it’s all on a voluntary basis. If beehaw decides to federate with a small cluster of other instances, then they’ll have their own niche just like the current internet.
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.
But that’s no different than the current internet. Like I said, it’s beehaw’s problem. If they want to strictly enforce native users on their instance and have their stricter account creation process to join their community, then that’s no different than the current internet.
And depending on the app you use, adding and switching to multiple accounts can be easy. I use Memmy which emulates Apollo’s account switcher.
While true, it sounds like communities from instances that un-federate should be avoided. More users are on other instances so the beehaw ones should be left to die in obscurity
I’m going to have a go at explaining how to use Lemmy in a simple way.
You only need one good instance to access all of Lemmy, but it can be nice to have an alternate in case the primary goes offline for some reason. For best network performance try instances in your region. You can sort instances by country here; https://the-federation.info/platform/73 When you find one that works well for you, make it your regular login instance.
Once you find a home instance, go to lemmyverse.net/communities to find communities of interest. Copy the link on lemmyverse by clicking on it (i.e. !technology@lemmy.ml) then paste into the search box on the communities page in Lemmy. Click on the listing from the search results then select the Subscribe button. It may show “Pending” for a short time then turn to “Joined”. If it doesn’t change right away don’t worry about it. You’re in even though it may look stuck.
The front page view defaults to Local, you don’t want that. Go to your profile settings and set the view to “Subscribed” (you could use “All”, but your front page will have a ton of junk you don’t want to see).
That’s it, you’re ready to use Lemmy. Of course this is for desktop browser. I’m not familiar with the Liftoff mobile app for Lemmy so I don’t have directions for that.
Additional; there’s other things to know about such as federation which involves blocked and linked instances, but to start just avoid communities on beehaw.org since that instance is one known to block other legit instances. If there is a community on beehaw.org you really want to interact with, you have to check your login instance is not blocked there. There’s a procedure for that, but I’ll spare you the information overload.
Okay, hope that helps and enjoy!
This is great. Thanks.
Others are already attempting to explain everything so I will try to just focus on solving your problem.
You are using the app Lift Off and you have linked your lemmy.world account. From the main screen click the icon in the top middle of your screen and select “ALL” under the lemmy.world section to see posts from all communities on instances that are federated with lemmy.world. That’s all you need to do to see posts from all the other instances.
But I only want to see what I’m subscribed to.
Is there a “Subscribed” under Lemmy.world?
Yes, but right now all I see is Lemmy World.
Any communities (even on other instances) you subscribed to from your lemmy.world account will show when you select that “subscribed” option.
