Hi, new user coming from Reddit, as many. Trying to orient with Lemmy, I realize that I still don’t understand the idea of instances well enough. Or maybe the fediverse. So there are plenty of instances, and each is supposed to be dedicated to a topic, but this is a very fluid definition. Anyhow, how do I search for instances? I mean, if I’m in Lemmy.world, I can click “instances” and I get the list of instances that are relevant. Sure, I can use google for that, but my logic tells me that there should be a more organic way.
And this leads to another question, how can I browses communities on other instances with my already existing account? What about platforms such as mastodon where I’m supposed to be able to browse and submit and such?
And finally, is there a search per community possibility?
Sorry, I’m still confused about these.
the instance you are registered with decided to defederate with some instance
This might explain why I can’t find communities which allegedly exist, or why I can’t choose my home instance in the android app to log in.
It might. I’m not getting any error which clearly states the malfunction is due to defederation.
How does one achieve clarity? Is there a map, which shows which instance is (de)federated to which other instances?
Sure you can!
If you scroll all the way down in a desktop browser, click into Instances. On the right it will tell you what instances are defederated.
Nice, thank you! There is only one defederated, the infamous lemmygrad.
Though I don’t think this explains the issues I have. Maybe it’s the overall load due to the reddit migration.
So what’s exactly a problem? I might be able to help - I struggled with some stuff here as well.
