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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.

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[-] JorMaFur@lemm.ee 192 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

BUT you can still upvote or comment on posts from different instances if you access them from within the instance your account is from!

So you don't need to create one account for each instance.

Edit: commented from a lemm.ee account

[-] neal@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Exactly - as long as the instance isnt defederated, you should be able to post/comment/upvote/mod in communities that are outside of your home instance.

[-] UhBell@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Do posts outside of Lemmy.World not show up in my feed?

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 28 points 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 points 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?

[-] jalda@sopuli.xyz 3 points 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 points 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 points 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.

[-] Archerofyail@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you're looking at subscribed or All they do, but the local feed is the default, and that only shows stuff on the local instance, in this case lemmy.world.

If you mean your profile, that will show all your activity on every instance.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

You can change the default in your user settings.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 10 points 1 year ago

Think of them like "Lemmy World Games" and "Lemmy ML Games"

[-] TimeIncarnate@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You can choose to show “Subscribed” communities—only the ones you’ve chosen, “Local” communities—only the ones on Lemmy.World, or “All”—which will pull from all the communities federated with Lemmy.World.

So to answer the question, posts from outside your home instance will show up in your feed, should you choose for them to.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

You can browse by "all" instances, or "local" your instance. Some people say "all" has this complicated formula that it shows what your instances users subscribe to, not a true all. I have no idea.

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