People need to realize you can use alternatives
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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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 ?
You can see those posts. You can see the posts of any community as long as your server federates with their server.
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.ca](/c/montreal@lemmy.ca)on the search bar of your instance (lemmy.ml) and you're good to go!I think he's looking for something more similar to a multi reddit which as far as I can tell at the moment is not a thing here. A single page you can go to, to see posts from both montreal@lemmy.ml and montreal@lemmy.ca in one single feed.
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
really though, the UX here is not bad, there are some minor fixes needed but its already fairly close to reddit '00s (but a bit better) flow. I understand wanting your local instance to be busy entirely, but does it matter if it works just a bit more like reddit and you pop between servers and communities without ever thinking about it?