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.
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.
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
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)
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?
Multiple accounts across multiple instances.
Oh.
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
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.
I don’t need to sign up with every instance that isn’t federated with my home instance. I only need to sign up on one of those instances if they have a community I want to follow and participate in.
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.
Liftoff recognizes more than just lemmy.world.
Go to the bottom right into profile. Upper right in the profile screen you’ll see a settings gear icon. Tap that, then select accounts.
From there, it should be pretty obvious. But, yeah, it would be nice if liftoff had a front facing accounts section like most of the others do. Great app though!
If you still don’t like it, connect and jerboa are currently the most reliable, with thunder being only a tad behind (but otherwise excellent) with tools g or, it was the last I checked yesterday, and I haven’t seen an update for it).
But, all of those support multiple accounts.
Not that you need multiple accounts. You can access all of lemmy and kbin from a single account. You just have to search for the community within an instance, and it’ll get pulled in if it isn’t already. But you have to search the !community@instance, or http://instance/c/community format if it isn’t already showing.
Community discovery can be a bit of a pain at times, but there’s lemmyexplorer that serves as a good source until lemmy itself has more time to develop
Can you give me an example for finding a community about, say, birds?
Op, try presding this teo communities and subscribe just to check it’s working properly
After you verify they are working feel free to unsubscribe of course.
Edit: after reading it again I’m a bit confused to what your problem is, so here is a quick run down of jow things should work.
From your own account, use the search bar to search for a community in another instance, there try to see button for about community (it might be different on each app) and lastly press subscribe. From yhere, all your subscriptions should appear the same regardless of where they come from.
It’s pending. So maybe I have to wait until I’m approved.
Not really, you probably can already see the posts on your frontpage feed (which is exclusive for your subscribed communities) and it also already should appear on your subscribed list.
And as the other user said, it is a bug that it appears as pending. At least on desktop when it days that I reload the page and press the subscribe button twice and it fixes, alternatively on the app “connect for lemmy” I have never seen the issue. But regardless it’s not really a problem
Nah. Bug, I think. Happens often with communities outside your server. They will still show in your feed.
Can’t you sign up to communities in other instances without signing up to that instance?
That’s what I’ve done, but I’m also new so not sure if I’m doing anything right at the moment. 😂
You are doing it right, even on desktop it’s the same thing. All one needs to do is search for a community from other instance in your own indtance and subscribe, you can even subscribe for communities outside of lemmy like kbin and beehaw
No idea.
You don’t need to sign up for each instance (server). You only need to sign up for one. When you login to that one and search from it, the results will include things from other instances (servers) as well.
And if a search result is a community (subreddit), you can subscribe to it as well. They will show up in your feed next time you refresh. If a community says “subscription pending”, just ignore it. You are already subscribed.
yes, you can. you only need to sign up for one instance, thats your “home base” and you can see everything from everywhere else from it. it’s like you can make a gmail account and still email ymail, yahoo, outlook, whatever else
yes
Do you mean that you have subscribed to communities on your chosen instance (Lemmy.world) if so you can view a feed of all these communities…including any you have subscribed to on other instances…
No, I signed up for different instances.
Ohhh…🤦🏻♂️😅…well its all a learning curve 👍🏻, you can just have one account on one instance, & subscribe to multiple communities, across various instances, to curate a your subscribed feed…
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.
I am wondering the same thing. I think people would be more likely to join if this Lemmy thing wasn’t so “messy”.
You appear to be on kbin, so you would go to https://kbin.social/settings/general and under Homepage select “Subscriptions” and then Click “Save” at the bottom of the page
Edit: I interpreted this question as subscribing to things, and then filtering to only that on the main page, my mistake if you meant otherwise
Click the bar at the top and choose everything / subscribed.
