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  • Right now it’s not even mastodon compatible let alone lemmy. There are some arguments on how federating with them will allow people to migrate to a more privacy respecting instance and still view threads content, and some users say this will allow them to still communicate with their friends who don’t want to switch away from threads.

    So while we do lean towards defederating from it, it’s some months away before we need to actually decide and till then we are simply listening to and discussing both sides of the argument.











  • That’s a good question, I’ll update the post with it an answer to it as well.

    On liftoff, assuming you have signed in, at the very top you should see [email protected]. if you click on it, you should see a drop down with instance names and 3 options of subscribed, local and all for each.

    Subscribed would show you the feed with the communities you’ve subscried to, local will show you content from the communities hosted on your home instance, and all will show you every post from every instance we are federated with. That’s basically the r/all equaivalent of lemmy and what you should browse to interact with other instances.


  • No, they are corrrect, I guess I should have added this part in the post too. The way federation works on lemmy is only after someone searches and subcribes to a community for the first time from another instance, only then is the information about an instance fetched.

    This is done this way to prevent flooding and overloading the local instance with every single other instance at once (and to not waste bandwidth connecing with spam intances). So if you set up your own personal instance, you’ll need to search interesting communities once yourself to view them later (or set up a script to do something like it).