New sync for Lemmy user here. What’s different for a community that I subscribe to, than any other community? I mean … For me to subscribe in the first place, they mostly have to show in my feed to begin with.
You have several feeds to browse Lemmy with.
- All shows everything federated to your home instance
- Local shows communities hosted on your home instance
- Home shows everything you are subscribed to
So subscribing to a community puts it in your Home feed which is a self curated list of communities that you’re interested in.
Subscribe lets you build a custom feed of communities that youre specifically interested in. Use it as a filter to see the topics you care about.
As an example, I’m subscribed to “sync for lemmy” and saw your question. If I was just in “local” or “everything” its fully possible that i would never have seen any sync for lemmy content at all.
You can search and explore communities, can you not? I can in Sync for Lemmy.