Can I join other instances?
Can I join other instances?
Or is it only the 3 that you can pick from where you can create an account in settings?
Still new so trying to work this out.
Is Connect for Lemmy only federated with a few instances?
For example I wanted to join lemdro.id As it's the replacement for /r/Android But when I search it's seemingly not there.
From what I can tell that is the Instance, and within it are communities. Are we able to add additional instances? Or even post across them? (I think I'm on lemmy.world?)
As tofr said, you can access almost every instance (and thus any community) from any instance.
But, if you're wanting to sign up for the android instance, and access it through the app Connect, you would do so by opening the left hand side menu, then the three dot at the top of the side screen. Select "add account", then type in the instance name and the rest of your login info.
But. Afaik, you can't sign up via any of the apps currently. You would have to visit the website of the instance and sign up there.
1Using Connect for Lemmy, you can login to accounts from any Lemmy instance, not just the 3 your presented with.
Where your home instance is, doesn't really matter, you can subscribe to communities on other instances.
If you search with this format you should be able to find communities on other instances !community@instance.tld
The exclamation is important in case your instances doesn't have that communities info store on their servers yet. It'll force your instance to search for that info on the other instance.
Lemdro.id is another instance, but you can subscribe to their android community on lemmy.world if you follow that formatting
0Thanks!
I'm not entirely sure what you meant in the last paragraph.
I did !android@lemdro.id And it found it and I'm subscribed though. So I'm getting there. Seems somewhat long winded finding new communities and connecting to them, maybe it can improve in the future.
I have some other less tech savvy friends who have dropped Redidt and I think it'll take them some time here.
0Think that was just a typo from sausage fingers on my phone. It's edited now. Yeah Lemmy is for the tech savy now but to keep it as simple as possible, just using the formatting I mentioned in my previous post
(and find communities using lemmyverse.net)
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Thanks for the response.
So following the other guys response, I was able to connect to that Android community, and even subscribed, so it's in my front page now.
Why would I need to make an account on that instance? I haven't tried yet but it looks like I can respond even with my account from this instance too.
Multiple accounts would put me off really, I like to be able to look back on everything on the one account.
Also side note, but unrelated, it does seem harder to find communities, I searched Android on Connect and got relatively little. But I found this Android one by checking specifically on Reddit. Maybe that can improve some way in the future.
0Why would I need to make an account on that instance? I haven't tried yet but it looks like I can respond even with my account from this instance too.
You don't need to. You can view and interact with other instances. The only case where this doesn't happen is if your home instance is defederated from the instance you want to interact with.
Also side note, but unrelated, it does seem harder to find communities, I searched Android on Connect and got relatively little. But I found this Android one by checking specifically on Reddit. Maybe that can improve some way in the future.
If I'm not mistaken, at least on the browser, once someone searches for a new community, it gets federated and then it should show up when you search it. For example: someone in lemmy.world searches for ! android@domain, now it's federated with lemmy.world. Now anyone from lemmy.world that searches for 'android' will find !android@domain, without having to put the whole address in the search field. BUT, this could work differently in connect, so I'm not sure.
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