I’m really bought in to the Lemmy experience and I want others to share similar interests. However, I know they will have a massive amount of questions, and I want to be able to answer them in addition to my own curiosities. Here are a few questions that I have that I am still fuzzy on.

  1. I created an account on lemm.ee. Is lemm.ee a separate instance?
  2. When subscribing, are you subscribing to separate instances or different communities within a particular instance?
  3. What is the difference between lemm.ee and lemmy.ml?
  4. Is there any reason to make new accounts on different instances?
  5. When I’m looking at the “Local” feed, what am I looking at?
  6. What is the difference between the “Local” feed and the “All” feed?

Any additional information on these questions would be massively appreciated.

  • @SleepingEnglish
    9•1 year ago
    1. Yes, Lemm.ee is a separate instance.
    2. You subscribe to communities that are made inside different instances.
    3. Their just different instances.
    4. I’ve got different accounts on different instances in the event one instance is having issues or is down.
    5. You’re looking at communities hosted on that particular instance.

    6. Local feed is communities on your instance and all is communities on your instance combined with communities you’re subscribed in.

    1. It’s all the communities your instance is federated with.

    Edit: Corrected point 6 as pointed out by Communist.

    • CommunistEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Point 6 is actually incorrect, for all it’s all of the communities your instance is federated with.

      • @SleepingEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Thanks for the correction! I’ll correct this in the OC.

        • @[email protected]English
          0•1 year ago

          It basically means contents someone on your instance have interacted with. Either they subed to the community, commented on a post, upvoted a post, etc.

          All of these actions requires your instance to ask for information about that post from its instance. And your instance will cache these information (because why not, your instance has already done the work to get the info), and serve it to people when they see “all”.

          Basically you can see things outside of your instance, so there is more content than local.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•1 year ago

            How can I check what communities/instances my home instance is federated with?

            Is there any instance that federated with everything so I can just scroll through and subscribe to the ones I want?

            • @[email protected]English
              2•1 year ago
              1. I don’t think you can
              2. I don’t think that is possible, how can you federate with everything, when everyone can create a instance?

              I think for a larger general purpose instance, in general they are quite well-fedorated, I think it could be a good approximation of what you want. But the mod can obviously stop federating with a certain instance, because their value do not align.

      • @SleepingEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        No problem, by the way be sure to note the correction.