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Might be the right time to share this old short (<2min) video about the Fediverse? There’s still too much misinformation on Reddit claiming that “Lemmy is not for the average user”.

(video hosted by a PeerTube instance, also a federated platform 😁)

  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦OPEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Assume you went to programming.dev (another Lemmy instance) and found this nice !programming community that you want to join. You don’t need to create a new account there. You can just go to the search box on your current instance (lemmy.world) and type !programming@programming.dev and click on “Search”. It will show you a link to that community but through lemmy.world. You can then click on it and subscribe to that community. Everything will be as if you are on programming.dev.

    • @razorwiregoatlickEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Thank you! So by default, when come to Lemmy.world are the “posts” (not sure if that is the right term) I see on the lemmy.world instance only? If I subscribe to one like you said will it start to show in my default view? I’m probably just trying to apply my Reddit thinking here and need to change my perspective.

      I am a software engineer and have interest in creating tools to help but feel like I need a better understanding of the fediverse first.

      • Danny MEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        lemmy allows you to change the posts you see from local (only your instance) to all (every federated instance)

        • @razorwiregoatlickEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Thanks for this. I didn’t realize that and had it set to Local.

          • Danny MEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            No problem man :) welcome to the fediverse. BTW, if you go to settings, you can set your defaults, so you don’t have to constantly change it

      • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦OPEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        If I subscribe to one like you said will it start to show in my default view?

        Yes! Here’s how my feed looks like (notice the Memes@lemmy.ml)

        • @razorwiregoatlickEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Perfect! Thank you so much! This really clarified things for me.