Maybe I don’t understand how Lemmy works yet…
I’ve created an account on lemmy.world. I’ve subscribed to memes@lemmy.ml. In the browser, I can up-vote posts on lemmy.ml. However, when I tried the same thing it the app, it told me I had to log into lemmy.ml to up-vote.
Is this right? How come it works in the browser?
Yeah, the way Lemmy is supposed to work is the way the website works. Requiring accounts on other instances to interact with content in those instances is, in the context of Lemmy, fair to describe as a “bug”. I hope it’s uninetentional and will be fixed soon - if it is a design choice that the devs are committed to for some reason, that alone makes this client not worth a lot.
I may have just learned this. If you’re using Liftoff app, make sure you have the correct “All” selected. Here’s how mine is set
Yep it’s a bit unintuitive when the app starts up showing All for all instances installed and needs switched like you showed.
It’s a similar issue if you use the search to find a community and don’t have “instance:” drop down set to the instance you’re logged in with. It’ll likely give you the same results both ways visually, but only one set of results will be ones you can subscribe/interact with.
Kind of wish you could just set an active instance where searching or visiting subs would just take you to that instance’s link to the sub if possible.
Yeah I’m confused too. I try to subscribe to federated communities from other lemmy instances or beehaw and it requires a login there. That’s not how the fediverse is supposed to work, is it? I can subscribe to federated communities in other clients like jerboa.
I hope this gets addressed in the next update. I want to switch from Jerboa as I don’t like the UI but this bug is actually making Liftoff unusable.
