@threeduck@aussie.zone aussie.zone is your server where your account resides
In all everything from other instances are shown while in local only your instance. If you want to find subs just select all and search or got to all in the feed bar and subscribeDon’t sorry, they got answers
I kinda love that people are willing to deal with these various technicalities and unknowns as a worthwhile compromise as long as it’s not [input any walled-garden here]
Lemmy isn’t too hard, it’s just annoying at times. Like when your instance hasn’t downloaded the content of a given community and it just looks empty until you subscribe to it.
Wow, so that’s how it works. I signed up to a couple because they interested me and hoped in the future something would be posted, or I would, and then saw a heap of posts.
It wasn’t dark magic after all. Perhaps it was psionics?
If one user of your instance is subscribed to a community on another instance, then that community is visible on that instance as well.
All I want is keep scrolling new funny. Lemmy gives me that.
yeah pretty much
I don’t understand why sometimes when I click on asklemmy at the top of the old.lemmy.world ui, sometimes it goes to regular asklemmy and sometimes it goes to asklemmy@lemmy.ml. And I don’t understand why these two communities have completely different posts.
They are two completely different communities that just happen to share their names. (And one of them is full of tankies, while yours isn’t)
How this works is the same with email: You can have john.smith@gmail.zz and you can have john.smith@outlook.com , but although those do have the same first name, the two addresses do not point to the same mailbox.
If a community is on your own instance (servers are called instances on Lemmy), then the part after @ is not shown. So, there is asklemmy@lemmy.world, and there is asklemmy@lemmy.ml. The latter one is luckily empty, as nothing on .ml is written without serious brainrot.
The one you see only as “asklemmy” is asklemmy@lemmy.world. There are actually this many asklemmys:

Each of the above is an independent community. Each one was founded by a different person and has different moderators, etc.
When you login to Lemmy, you go to lemmy.world and login there. I don’t. I do not have a user account on lemmy.world, which is one of the instances (servers) for Lemmy. However, I do have a user account on sopuli.xyz, which is another instance. When I log in to that, I can read anything written on any instances that have federated with sopuli.xyz. We are having this conversation in a community on yet another instance:
As you can see there, this community is located on an instance called lemmy.uk.So, I am reading this through sopuli.xyz, which has a connection to lemmy.uk. When I write something, Sopuli sends all the text to lemmy.uk which then saves it. And then your instance, lemmy.world, has a connection to lemmy.uk as well, and shows you whatever is shown on that instance. When a Lemmy-instance creates such a connection to another instance, it is called federating.
The nice thing about this construction is that if someone tries taking over Lemmy, they only take over their own instance. Its users can just migrate to another instance, create an account there and continue almost as if nothing had happened. And if some instance is not moderating its users’ activities properly, other instances can defederate from it. That means: They can stop showing their users content from the badly behaving instance, and also the users from that instance won’t see anything held on the other instance.
I hope this blabbering helped!
I struggle to understand how such a person can drive a car and buy groceries if they can’t figure out these extremely simple concepts
My main thing right now is trying to figure out how to visit/subscribe to other communities, particularly those outside of Aussie.zone
why am i being called out here
I have to say this is my experience too. I’m a boomer and whatever stumble upon here is purely coincidental.
But you are here all the same. We appreciate you!
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Type a word for something you might be interested in, and if there’s a community it should come up there. The main problem is still that the fediverse doesn’t have enough people to support niche (or even kinda niche) interests yet
3 legged dung beetle jump racing isn’t niche!
After you block a few hundred groups of anime and nonsense it’s surprisingly enjoyable.
I’m still mad at the 196 mods for causing even more 196 commies to be made for me to block.
Sorry about that, some people don’t know ani.social exists and create comms on the wrong instances. They’re supposed to show up in my local feed, but now they’re in yours and you don’t even appreciate them!
HOW MANY MORE MOES DO WE NEED???
Six or seven?
Who is moe and why is her midriff so popular???
I have no idea but every once in a while they’re interesting.
Isn’t moe the bartender in the simpsons?
IDK, lets keep going until we find out!
At least 1 more than the fucking aigen communities, I swear I have to block a new one every week.
What if I told you at least 50% of the moe communities content are aigen 🥹
Just means I have blocked them! If it has ai in its name or only posts ai generated content, its gone (except fuck_ai, for obvious reasons)
Still waiting for an app with curated block lists.
Piefed has keyword filters, that can already help a lot with filtering
Also PieFed allows blocking all users across an entire instance, whereas Lemmy does not (I know that you know that, but in case it helps anyone else reading:-P).
Doesn’t bluesky do that?
Maybe, idk
They do.
Block the ani.social instance and it takes away 90% of the anime groups.
but I don’t want to block their users
I’m pretty sure blocking (if you’re using a Lemmy instance anyway, which looks like you are) doesn’t block users, but only the communities from the instance you’re blocking. I think I’ve heard that Piefed blocks more extensively though, probably including users.
i just blocked lemmy.world and my feed is immediately 20x better
I was very supportive of Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world early. It’s lovely.
When you block that many groups how many new posts do you see? And how do you sort the posts?
I have only blocked a few groups but added a filter for posts containing trump or elon in the title as I get plenty of that crap from other sources.
Regarding the anime and furry posts, they come in waves so it’s not constant or if I want to get a break from the yiffing I switch between sorting by Hot, Scaled and Top 6hrs.
Not who you are asking, but I block a lot of communities (almost all of them political, when I want to look at political stuff I will go to other sources.) But I also sub to a lot of communities. It is possible for me to reach the bottom of my feed, but since I mostly check it between doing other things, it takes anywhere from a few hours to most of the day. And that’s with me setting it to “Top Day” as my primary filter. If I’m really bored I’ll do a pass through Top Week or Top Month. If I’m STILL bored, I’ll set it to Active or New Comments, but usually by then it’s like, “Okay time to go do something else” and I’ll try to find some other activity to do.
This is a feature, not a bug IMO.
As long as you can clear the single minor technical barrier to entry you’re welcome here. It may be the lowest of hurdles, but Reddit threw all their hurdles away a while ago and just let anyone capable of moving forward on a flat surface in.
And bots. Don’t forget the bots
Most bots meet that criteria.
Would love a “subbed” category too, nether all nor local nor front-page does that ??!
I do have a subscribed category both in Sync for Lemmy, and the website.

Nice! It’s just missing in Connect then I guess!
On Voyager there is Home which is subscribed communities. All / Home / Local.
I love Voyager because I was a big Apollo user back on Reddit.
I’m kinda in this boat right now too hahah
Any questions we could answer for you?
I would appreciate it if you could explain how I browse instances. I am using Voyager on iOS, not sure if that’s relevant, and I was trying to search for hexbear since people keep talking about it. Nothing comes up.
Then I tried searching for lemmy.ca, but it didn’t appear as something I could go through and browse, just a few of the communities there showing up in search results. What am I doing wrong? Or misunderstanding…
Heh, I read your comment using Voyager on Android. Yeah, makes it easier for me to check how things are done on your phone that we happen to have the same telephone client app.
Probably the easiest way to grasp these things is to browse Lemmy on a full-fledged computer. Voyager can do everything the interface made by Lemmy’s developers can do. (Plus, Voyager has a sensible way of reading your own private messages, while I have no idea how to return to them on the “official” web interface)
Since a phone has a cramped screen, all kinds of hocus-pocus needs to be done to fit the same features on the small screen. So, use it on a big screen of a computer and you’ll get things much better. So, here goes:Now, open a web browser, write “lemmy.world” on the address bar and then click “Login” in the upper right corner. Write “buttnugget” in the field “Email or Username” and your password in, well, wherever you feel it would fit well.
Now you’re logged in in the same instance you always use with Voyager.
Press “Local” here, and you will see content only on communities hosted on lemmy.world:

And then do some more browsing around Lemmy.world, just like you’d do with your phone.
Next, write some other instance’s address on your browser’s URL field. I’m using Sopuli, so that’s one option: Try writing sopuli.xyz as the address. You can try logging in again, bit it won’t work, because you don’t have a user account on sopuli.xyz.
So, go back to Sopuli’s main page and click “Local”. You’ll see only content hosted on sopuli.xyz. Having browsed those enough, click “Communities” on the upper part of the screen, here:

…and then make sure you have “Local” chosen. Choose any community you reasonably like and click on its name. On the upper right corner, press Subscribe, here:

Clicking that button gives you a dialogue asking “Enter the instance you would like to follow this community from”. Write the address of your own instance there, in your case lemmy.world. Sopuli will then tell .world that you’d like to subscribe to that community, and lemmy.world will handle the rest of the subscribing. So, even though you’re browsing a completely different instance, you can still also subscribe to communities there.
But alas… Some instances use a theme that has no “Subscribe” button. Which is weird. Try for example suppo.fi . Still, there’s something you can do: If you see anything interesting on any other instance, just copy the address from the URL bar, then go to your own instance (lemmy.world), click the search button here:

…and then paste the URL here and press [Search]:

You could also try feddit.org to see how the biggest German-speaking Lemmy instance looks like when you press “Local”. Or lemmy.pt to see something in Portuguese :))
But now, let’s get to answering the original question: I do not think Voyager has a feature for viewing the content of one single instance only, unless you create a user account there. And that’s a bit cumbersome. What you can do is open the web browser on your phone, then open some instance on its browser and either click the subscribe button if it exists on that instance’s theme, or copypaste the URL of the interesting thing to the search of lemmy.world, again using your phone’s browser. On lemmy.world you’ll need to click the hamburger menu on the upper right corner in order to find the login button:

Of course, if you want to subscribe to things with your own account, you need to be logged in :) Whatever you subscribe to with any browser will then immediately be visible on Voyager as well, as it’s just another interface for the same Lemmy.What you can, however, do on Voyager, is press “Posts” on the lower part of your screen (sometimes you need to press it several times):

And then click “All” here:

That will show you content regardless of what instance it was published on. But, as you remember from having browsed the various instances on your web browser, there’s a lot of content you cannot see in that view. But, what you can indeed do is open the interesting instances on your phone’s browser (or your computer’s browser), browse the communities there, and subscribe to whatever you find interesting. Remember, you’ll only need to do this once, because once you’ve found the communities you find interesting and subscribed to them, they’ll be visible on Voyager just fine :) If for whatever reason you want to have user accounts on several communities at once, Voyager does support that. Once you’ve created a user account on some instance, you can add it to Voyager.
And to close this short textlet:
You can see a short list of the biggest instances here: https://join-lemmy.org/instances .
And a full list of all 597 lemmy instances here: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list .I will read this tomorrow. Holy crap. Thanks so much for taking the time!
Human’s gotta do what human’s gotta do :)
Just finished reading it. Thanks so much!!
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