Not sure if I understand this, but I think the way the lemmy federation works is:

  • there are multiple servers in the federation (for example, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, lemmy.whatever, etc.)

  • each server can have multiple communities, which are like subreddits

  • so, for example, each server can have its own community for photography.

Q1: is my summary correct?

Q2: is there a way to subscribe to multiple related communities across different servers and “merge” those communities into a single view? so that I don’t have to click on each separate one? edit: for example, if there are 3 servers that each have a photography community, can I merge them into a single “photography” view?

Sorry if this is a silly question (or if the answer is obvious).

  • Eddie
    2•1 year ago

    Are you talking about, subscribing? Subscribe to all of the communities you want and then sort by subscribed on your home page. If you want to folow a community that isn’t on your instance, copy and paste the link to that community in your instance’s search box and subscribe to it from there.