I do, but as more people join I’m also feeling a little republican - i got my spot and this is good; everyone on the outside can go fuck off now. I don’t want it to get so big that it’s what we left. No intended disrespect or lack of acknowledgment to those who were here before.
Ya, but I don’t know if I’m figuring this place out or just holding water here… Like, I don’t think the app i’m using (liftoff) and the site i’m using (lemm.ee) sync or have replies from one show up in the other? Also, what’s this about adding instances? Do I need to add so I can interact with others?
On liftoff, you’ll have a bar at the top that probably says subscribed. If you click that, you can choose local or all. In your subscribed communities, you will automatically see posts and replies from all federated instances. If you click local, you can sort by active, hot, new, etc. You will see posts from your instance. If you click all, you will see posts from all instances. I usually scroll my subscribed by new. Then I hit subscribed by active. Then I hit all by new and scroll forever.
Thanks for the feedback. When you say ‘instance’ are those independent community’s then? I’m a football fan… if I follow the NFL community, is it possible that there’s another community in an alternate universe (or instance) that might be more active or have better engagement? If so, is there a way to couple them together or am I looking at this from an incorrect viewpoint?
If you buy something on Amazon, sometimes it comes directly from Amazon and sometimes it comes from other sellers, but you access it all through Amazon. If you don’t look, you often don’t even realize that your product came from someone else. It’s kinda like that. Your server (instance) is like Amazon. All of the other instances are like other vendors who ship through Amazon, but you open the app and it’s all there. Each of those Amazon vendors might make similar versions of an item you want, so you buy one from each and return the ones you don’t want. Each instance might have a community that you’re interested in. You can subscribe to all of them and then you might later decide to unsubscribe from ones that are dead or angry. I’ve only been here since the Reddit blackout, so i could be off, but that’s the way i understand it.
Regarding the NFL, yes. If you search nfl, you’ll see that there are about 5 different communities. One appears to have more people than the others, but you can subscribe to all of them. Then when you choose SUBSCRIBED at the top bar on liftoff, posts from all of them will show up. You can just think of them like different people created different subs. It only really matters when you search for something - then you want to make sure your searching ALL, rather than LOCAL or SUBSCRIBED if you really want to see all your options for communities.
I too still don’t understand this whole lemmiverse thing but I got more comfortable over time. I subscribed a few channels and have enough content to keep busy so I guess it’s good enough. Overall my opinion is that if you need a phd in this federation stuff then you’re just not going to attract and keep many users.