ysk - your account doesn't exist on other instances and communities don't overlap - eviltoast

User accounts are fragmented and just because you signed on at lemmy.world doesn’t mean your account exists on lemmy.ca.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1985

Communities are fragmented and /c/games on lemmy.world is completely different than the one on lemmy.ml with its own users, set of posts, etc.

Lemmy does not currently allow for instance or user migration.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3057

Nor does it allow for shared communities (ie the aforementioned /c/games is unified across multiple instances)

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3100

We are in the early days. If you’re eager feel free to join in the development on these any many other core issues. There’s real potential here.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
    27·
    1 year ago

    They do. This post is a bit misleading. If anyone on your instance is subscribed to games@lemmy.world or games@lemmy.ml, which are two different communities, then those posts would show up on your instance.

    For instance, of you’re on lemmy.world, there are two communities:

    https://lemmy.world/c/games and https://lemmy.world/c/games@lemmy.ml. Two different communities, synced across both instances. The reverse would be true of you were on lemmy.ml.

    • GoosLife@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Wait, anyone on my instance? So does this mean that signing up for a larger instance, like lemmy.world will have a bigger chance of exposing me to more content, considering the larger chance of someone being subscribed cross-instances, in which case that content has a chance of showing up on my feed? Is that correctly understood?

      • jorge@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        1 year ago

        In theory, yes. But in practice, any decent-sized instance is already exposed to all communities of the other decent-sized instances.

        And you can always “introduce” your instance to communities that you find with external tools, like https://lemmyverse.net/communities

        Keep in mind that joining a larger instance also has its cons, like more server load (lemmy.world is having issues with this), moderation, etc.

        • GoosLife@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          Wow, that is pretty neat! And thanks for introducing me to the lemmyverse explorer. This is honestly all pretty exciting.

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yes and no. Eventually smaller instances federate a ton of content, and it can happen very quickly. I wouldn’t be too concerned about this.