Lemmy is a federated social platform. What does this mean for me? It means that you could be on any instance, and talk to most other instances.
What is an instance? An instance of lemmy is just a single individual lemmy server. You can host your own on a VPS if you want!
An instance is a single copy of the software running on a single physical or virtual server. If you run two copies of the software on the same physical or virtual server, that counts as two instances.
You dont. My account is from the german instance feddit.de and I can see, post and comment on many different instances. The only reason to have different accounts is to access an instance that defederated from the one you were using since they cant contact each other. But with some exceptions you are better off not visiting those instances anyways because they often are full of trolls, neocons or tankies: people that dont deserve a platform.
Well, they’re different websites, so yeah. Except no, because the fact that they’re federated with each other means you can participate in communities from other instances.
If you can’t see a community, it is likely nobody on your instance is subscribed. On the top right of the page, search for the community (with the instance included), wait a few seconds, then search again. Subscribe to it, and you should be able to post there.
Hello there!
Lemmy is a federated social platform. What does this mean for me? It means that you could be on any instance, and talk to most other instances.
What is an instance? An instance of lemmy is just a single individual lemmy server. You can host your own on a VPS if you want!
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I am on lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz, and I am able to interact with you, a lemmy.blahaj.zone user, on lemmy.blahaj.zone!
This is the power of a federated community!
Do I have to create a new login for every lemmy site I use?
You dont. My account is from the german instance feddit.de and I can see, post and comment on many different instances. The only reason to have different accounts is to access an instance that defederated from the one you were using since they cant contact each other. But with some exceptions you are better off not visiting those instances anyways because they often are full of trolls, neocons or tankies: people that dont deserve a platform.
Well, they’re different websites, so yeah. Except no, because the fact that they’re federated with each other means you can participate in communities from other instances.
Source: I’m doing it right now
So how can I make a post to lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz from lemmy.blahaj.zone?
Yes, unless blahaj made a clear effort to defederate from antemeridiem
Find a community, subscribe to it if you want to be able to see new posts and comments, and select that community when making a post.
But antemeridian isn’t on the list :(
If you can’t see a community, it is likely nobody on your instance is subscribed. On the top right of the page, search for the community (with the instance included), wait a few seconds, then search again. Subscribe to it, and you should be able to post there.
Search with the format !community@instance.tld, example: !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
You’re on pc, yeah?
Go to search bar.
Type
!okbuddybaka@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
Don’t forget the !.
Also, if it says no results found, simply reload the tab. It will show then.
I managed to make a post on cats, The ones on the r/196 list have a subscribe button, but antemeridian doesn’t. So I guess they aren’t linked.
That’s strange
Click on the community. It will open a new tab. Then click subscribe.