You don’t need multiple accounts*. Lemmy.world is a federated instance of Lemmy. That means you can see not just the *local *content that fellow Lemmy.world users post here, but content posted by any other Lemmy federated instance. If you signed up for Lemmy on the instance sh.itjust.works rather than Lemmy.world, because sh.itjust.works is federated as well, any posts you make are visible to me because both of our instances are in the Fediverse. That’s to say, they agree to mirror content for the sake of building a large shared network of information.
*The only reason you’d want another Lemmy account is if you were joining an instance that wasn’t federated. That’s to say, someone or some group decided they were going to make their own Reddit-style site using the Lemmy software and keep all of its content private. You’d create an account with that site, sign in and the only content you’d ever see is local.
Ok. I was trying to join stuff on kbin but it was asking for me to log in. I’ll dig in more on a PC later. Looks like I need to change the url to subscribe. Not easy on mobile.
Edit: I created an account for kbin and subscribed to some communities (called magazines there). There are communities of the same name unique to Lemmy and kbin. However, you can subscribe to the communities unique to kbin from Lemmy provided the instance you joined is federated. For example, I like the Gaming community/magazine at kbin. I searched for it while signed into Lemmy.world and subscribed to it. Now I don’t need to kbin to see that content.
Oh, I see what you mean. I’m not familiar with kbin, I’ve seen it mentioned but just now bothered to google for it. Man that looks much nicer than Lemmy. ಠ_ಠ
Yes the url formatting can be a little wonky if you are getting it from a link somebody drops in a comment.
A consistent way is to go up to “communities”, then type in your search parameter in the search field and make sure the search is for “all” (as opposed to subscribed or local).
It will show you kbin (among others) communities related to your search term and you can click on them and subscribe.
How do I connect this account to stuff outside lemmy.world? Do I need multiple accounts? Thanks btw.
You don’t need multiple accounts*. Lemmy.world is a federated instance of Lemmy. That means you can see not just the *local *content that fellow Lemmy.world users post here, but content posted by any other Lemmy federated instance. If you signed up for Lemmy on the instance sh.itjust.works rather than Lemmy.world, because sh.itjust.works is federated as well, any posts you make are visible to me because both of our instances are in the Fediverse. That’s to say, they agree to mirror content for the sake of building a large shared network of information.
*The only reason you’d want another Lemmy account is if you were joining an instance that wasn’t federated. That’s to say, someone or some group decided they were going to make their own Reddit-style site using the Lemmy software and keep all of its content private. You’d create an account with that site, sign in and the only content you’d ever see is local.
Ok. I was trying to join stuff on kbin but it was asking for me to log in. I’ll dig in more on a PC later. Looks like I need to change the url to subscribe. Not easy on mobile.
Edit: I created an account for kbin and subscribed to some communities (called magazines there). There are communities of the same name unique to Lemmy and kbin. However, you can subscribe to the communities unique to kbin from Lemmy provided the instance you joined is federated. For example, I like the Gaming community/magazine at kbin. I searched for it while signed into Lemmy.world and subscribed to it. Now I don’t need to kbin to see that content.
Oh, I see what you mean. I’m not familiar with kbin, I’ve seen it mentioned but just now bothered to google for it. Man that looks much nicer than Lemmy. ಠ_ಠ
Yes the url formatting can be a little wonky if you are getting it from a link somebody drops in a comment.
A consistent way is to go up to “communities”, then type in your search parameter in the search field and make sure the search is for “all” (as opposed to subscribed or local).
It will show you kbin (among others) communities related to your search term and you can click on them and subscribe.
thank you for the explanation. i’m learning this platform as well!