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To Federate or Not To Federate (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by dangblingus to c/asklemmy

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Okay, so forgive my ignorance, this is all pretty new for me.

Obviously a lot of us are here as Reddit refugees. People looking for a discussion forum that scratches that itch. Fediverse sounds pretty neat. Only I'm not really sure what to make of these instances. Basically, I need a separate account for each Lemmy instance? So if for some reason .world doesn't have what I'm looking for, I literally need to make a new account on someone else's instance? For example, my login doesn't work on lemmy.ca. Isn't the point that you can comment on anyone's post no matter what because it's all run through Activity Pub? Or do I have to make my own instance to federate other people's instances? Super weird.

Am I missing something here? I just want to have a place where I have 1 login and I can see the entire internet's worth of interesting stuff. Like Reddit.

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[–] dangblingus 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure how I do that other than subscribing to communities via search. Lemmy.ca prompts me for a login that isn't my .world login.

[–] scutiger 1 points 1 year ago

If you go on lemmy.world's main page, you have a section where you can choose subscribed, local, or all posts. All will show you posts from all Lemmy instances, Local will show you only lemmy.world, and subscribed will show you all the communities you've subscribed to regardless of which instance is hosting them.

From there, you can sort by a few other options, like active, hot, new, etc.