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let's cut the "Reddit" circle jerk and start actually making content (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by phil299@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Not that it is not interesting but I would like just a tad more variety on the front page.

Edit btw for those who are wondering the two communities I started are https://lemmy.world/c/newmusic and https://kbin.social/m/musicfeedback/microblog (not sure if I have the links correct for people)

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[-] AgentGoldfish@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's not how any of this works...

Communities (as you put, sublemmy) can't be individually federated, only instances can be. And needing another account is a sign that you are looking at a post on the wrong instance, not a sign that an instance is not federated. In fact, finding out a community is not federated can be pretty difficult unless you check the list of instances that are defederated on another instance.

That's not a universal link, so you ended up on a different instance. A much simpler and easy explanation than what you came up with.

[-] tomkatt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My bad, I'm still learning how this whole thing works, have only been using Lemmy for the last day or two.

I'm starting to figure it out. It's a little confusing though, as when I subscribe to some communities that aren't on lemmy.world, they all show as "subscribe pending" for me. But it seems like I am subscribed? Or maybe just seeing it here on lemmy.world but not actually the content on that instance? I'm not really sure. Sorry if I'm adding any confusion here.

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Just to answer this part, the pending subscriptions (mostly a problem on lemmy.ml communities but sometimes elsewhere too) seem to be mostly a visual bug. I have a ton showing as pending but posts from them turn up in my feed so I'm clearly subscribed.

[-] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Every community needs to be federated separately, but instances can defederate entire instances. To federate with a community you have to search for it from your instance.