listen, I’m willing to go to smaller instances if necessary, but for the same reason I signed up for mastodon.social - I want my local community to not be a desert, if at all possible.
They is great although I am dismayed this obvious need has not been met from back in 800 issues. To me this indicates, not a inability to do it, but an ideological opposition to the very idea.
Probably from people who imagine the protagonist of Lemmy is the instance owners or moderators rather than the user. And they probably are in the majority, or vocal majority of they’ve been able to stall for so long.
A similar issue exista on mastodon regarding full on account migration, which disempowers the owner class as well as the moderator class
In practice this does not appear to work. I tried seeing /c/Montreal from various servers. Each /c/montreal community appears to be an isolated bubble.
listen, I’m willing to go to smaller instances if necessary, but for the same reason I signed up for mastodon.social - I want my local community to not be a desert, if at all possible.
It looks on the main page, you can view posts across all communities on lemmy, regardless of which community you’re on, so that certainly helps.
But… If I’m on Lemmy.ml/c/Montreal , I can’t see the posts on lemmy.ca/c/Montreal Are we going to need one account for every Lemmy instance out there ?
No, you just need to subscribe to !montreal@lemmy.ca. “Unfortunately” they share the same name, but they are different communities.
Just search for
!montreal@lemmy.caon the search bar of your instance (lemmy.ml) and you’re good to go!This is a problem. I want to talk to /c/Montreal in all servers at once, not a specific community
there are several github issues discussing the possibility of combining communities across instances, and/or creating ‘multireddit’ style views:
They is great although I am dismayed this obvious need has not been met from back in 800 issues. To me this indicates, not a inability to do it, but an ideological opposition to the very idea.
Probably from people who imagine the protagonist of Lemmy is the instance owners or moderators rather than the user. And they probably are in the majority, or vocal majority of they’ve been able to stall for so long.
A similar issue exista on mastodon regarding full on account migration, which disempowers the owner class as well as the moderator class
You can see those posts. You can see the posts of any community as long as your server federates with their server.
In practice this does not appear to work. I tried seeing /c/Montreal from various servers. Each /c/montreal community appears to be an isolated bubble.