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 ?

[–] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

You can see those posts. You can see the posts of any community as long as your server federates with their server.

[–] ndr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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!

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a problem. I want to talk to /c/Montreal in all servers at once, not a specific community

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there are several github issues discussing the possibility of combining communities across instances, and/or creating 'multireddit' style views:

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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