I originally chose to make my account on lemmy.world since all the content seemed to come from there. But I’ve since learned that I can fill my feed with stuff from any instance so it feels like it doesn’t actually matter if I’m on lemmy.world or not. At the same time, Lemmy.world seems to be frequently under attack so I’m wondering if I should change instance but have no idea what I should even be looking for when choosing.

  • @DashboTreeFrogOP
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    61 year ago

    Sounds like good advice, stick with what I’m on for now (lemmy.world) and see what smaller instances appeal to me as I explore. I’ll probably end up doing this.

    I’m also realizing from your post that the All feed is different from instance to instance? I thought it’s basically everything from all federated Lemmy instances.

    • TheSaneWriter
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      41 year ago

      It is, but the content that is federated varies from instance to instance. Instances only federate communities that a user on that instance is subscribed to, so the all feed is a combination of posts from every community that an instance member is subscribed to. For a large instance like lemmy.world that’s basically every community, but for medium instances there are various small communities they don’t have and for a small instance, the all feed will reflect the interests of the founding members.

    • mookulator
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      1 year ago

      Yeah the All feed shows you the communities that you and all your instance-mates follow, but not every community in existence.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      All refers to everything that your instance knows about. Your instance only retrieves data for which users are actually subscribed.

      All can be weird on small instances if the user subscriptions don’t have a nice distribution.