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How do you choose an instance and does that have a significant effect on your Lemmy experience?

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I originally chose to make my account on lemmy.world since all the content seemed to come from there. But I’ve since learned that I can fill my feed with stuff from any instance so it feels like it doesn’t actually matter if I’m on lemmy.world or not. At the same time, Lemmy.world seems to be frequently under attack so I’m wondering if I should change instance but have no idea what I should even be looking for when choosing.

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phoenix591@lemmy.phoenix591.com
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itl only search within communities at least one person on your instance is subbed to yes. and subbing doesn’t pull in hardly any previous posts, mostly just new ones from that point on

use something like this to help find communities, and perhaps retry searching on the home instance of a relevant community to search its entire history

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Chickenlambchops@lemmy.ca
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So when I do this. It tells me to login via Lemmy.world ? I am on a smaller instance.

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Ghyste@sh.itjust.works
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When you go into the community search on your instance, make sure you select All instead of Local. You’ll get results from all of the instances yours is federated with then.

The community catalogs people post will often take you straight to a different instance—which is different from the one you made your account on and logged into—which is why you see a login prompt.

Searching from your instance with All selected will let you visit communities from any instances yours is connected with while you stay logged in on your home instance. Hope that helps, I tried to simply but it’s late and I’m tired.

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Chickenlambchops@lemmy.ca
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I think I know what the issue is. I’m using wefwef/voyager. I think the search there is making it hard for me to find things. I’ll try on the computer. Thank you

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phoenix591@lemmy.phoenix591.com
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you dont need to login to search.

if you do find something you want to do more than simply view, copy the post or comment url, and then search for it on your home instance for it to be pulled over so you can properly interact with it

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