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I'm liking it so far, but a couple of things confuse me about the multiple instances thing.
I've made an account in lemmy.world and for the most part, have found my favorite communities are on the grow here.
However, I know there are other popular instances like lemmy.ml and such. Do our accounts not work cross compatible across the various lemmy instances?
My account seems to βworkβ on other instances in that I can vote and reply to content from other instances. I picked lemm.ee at random. Iβm glad that for now we can be friends, because in future years we will be bitter enemies in the Platform Wars.
Iβm just hoping the Platform Wars take place in a Battlefield game engine somehow integrated with EVE Online and each platform gets a star system as its home base.
edie: or just Star Citizen
The multiple instances thing confuses me too. That was my biggest stumbling block to even getting an account - I could not figure out how it worked to just get an account and get to see what I'm used to seeing on Reddit which is the various feeds of content. It initially looked like Discord or something which is not what I'm looking for.
I'm hoping there is more clarity on that for newbies in the future because I can't be the only person whose eyeballs rolled into the back of their head trying to understand.
I'm super new and still need to get the hang of the instance thing. For the experienced folks: is there not an aggregation of content between instances? I am hoping not to have to work to see content from different places. The aggregate views of Reddit for communities I subscribed to/front page was mostly where I lived.
Of course I'll try to understand and read up, just noting where things are not intuitive in a way that could prevent users from coming over.
Novice so please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is you can still see and post on these other instances/communities. Local will still pull from your instance, but All pulls from everything (or at least what's still federated). Definitely a need to block all the furry biz that otherwise populates on All/New but after some curating (and eye bleaching) should be good to go!