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Advice for now settled new Lemmy users.
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this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
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But you'll still see all content from every federated instance in your feed? It doesn't matter which one you're signed up to.
You may need to search for the community first for your instance to know about it. That hampers discovery a lot imo.
Oh is that true? So when I search for an instance on the app I use (Connect) is the list of communities that appear only there because people have subscribed to them once? Or am I seeing everything but it won't appear in everyone's feed until I subscribe to it?
They don't have to subscribe, but somebody has to have searched specifically for that community, so kinda yes.
People here promote scripts and bots so that an instance gets automatically subbed to new communities - which ok, but then which small instances really want to mirror the whole Fediverse? Most will run out of hard drive space, and we're back at square one.