That's my problem. When people say "just switch instances, it's why the fediverse exists" did they ever stop to think that it's a pain in the ass? Or that there's going to be significantly fewer communities and users on other instances?

I am not finding my same communities outside of lemmy world due to the overall lower usage of lemmy. So we're faced with switching instances to "fight the good cause" and have no content, or stay at Lemmy World.

Not everyone here is a ln Uber tech nerd that has all the time in the day to fuck around with this stupid site.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If you join an instance that isn't defederated with lemmy.world, you should have access to all of the same communities and comments that you'd see there. That's kind of the entire idea.

For example, I'm viewing this post and these comments from sh.itjust.works. I had to go back to the top of this post to see that it originated from lenmy.ml

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

that concept still blows my mind. we're all together now... but separately.

[–] deftdrummer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And this ties into people asking for things like "is there a way to LIST what communities an instance has?" On an app by app basis, because as the other user said - this whole "we're in this together" thing with the federation idea isn't really clicking.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like user error.