4d ago

Less posts than lemmy?

I seem to see less posts than in my lemmy instance. Is this normal?

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Yes. Every post in the Fediverse does not magically appear in every instance, the instance has to tell a community that it wants to receive new activities from it.
You want more posts in your instance? Subscribe to new communities.
- So, subscribing to an outside /c from one instance will make visible that specific community to the home instance's total userbase, correct? But it only works in terms of fetching that specific /c, right? I.e., it doesn't automatically pull the total list of /c's from that other instance, if I understand correctly.
  
  So, subscribing to an outside /c from one instance will make visible that specific community to the home instance's total userbase, correct?
  Yep.
  But it only works in terms of fetching that specific /c, right? I.e., it doesn't automatically pull the total list of /c's from that other instance, if I understand correctly.
  No, it doesn't pull every other comm from the instance.
  Lemmy v1.1.0 should be getting the ability to receive a minimal list of all the comms an instance has: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2951
  This doesn't mean that the instance will subscribe to every comm. It will only know about their existence and show them in the comm list, so basically a builtin lemmyverse.net.
  I don't know if this is already a thing or planned in PieFed.
- I assume he's referring to as seen from piefed.social, which should have a lot of coverage now.
- But how can I subscribe to new communities if they don't show up in my feed? I'll never know about them otherwise.
  
  I sometimes use search, trying to guess what names interesting communities might have.
  And then, I sometimes just open the other instances' pages in a web browser and view their Local. If there's something interesting going on, I click the "Subscribe" button that asks for my instance's address and adds that community for me on my instance. Or, if the community is on Piefed or on a Lemmy instance not using the default theme, I copypaste the URL into the relevant search on my home instance.
  If you want to see communities hosted on suppo.fi, write suppo.fi on your browser's address bar and view their Local.
  
  There are 2 ways to fetch new communities your instance hasn't seen before, which are also talked about in the join-lemmy.org docs
  https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html#following-communities
  Using the community identifier
  You can fetch new communities by searching for its identifier, clicking on an identifier or directly entering it into the URL bar.
  Community identifiers look like this:
  !<community name>@<domain.tld>
  For example: !asklemmy@lemmy.world
  Searching for the full URL in your instance.
  Say you found a new community in sopuli.xyz named cats, you can input the full URL for it directly into your instance's search bar.
  e.g. an URL: https://sopuli.xyz/c/cats (I don't know if this is a real community or not, just as an example)
  The fedecan guide is also good:
  https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities
  https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-open-in-my-instance
  I am also surprised that you didn't already know this by now. You have been here for a year.
Yes.
You see on all what everyone on your server has subscribed to.
If the Lemmy instance has been around longer and is larger, you'te going to see more varied communities in their all than you would see on a Lemmy instance with less communities its users are subscribed to. Its not a piefed thing, just a fediverse thing.

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