Select “all” rather than “local” and you’ll see content from all federated instances.
Keep in mind Beehaw defederated us so no communications between them and lemmyworld
Why did Beehaw defederate?
Edit: Nevermind, found it: https://beehaw.org/post/567170
I selected it by default in my settings, but it keeps going back to “Local”
Yeah I just remember to check every time…I’m sure that’s one of those things that is just a little jenky that will improve with time!
I’m just sticking to lemmy.world for now. It doesn’t have all the communities I want yet but it seems more open than the others. I don’t like walled gardens or gated communities. If I wanted a platform with power hungry, elitist moderators creating circle jerk in-groups, I would have stayed on Reddit.
Same. I joined .world randomly because I didn’t understand Lemmy when I joined, but I made the right decision!
You know you can connect to any community on another server regardless of your instance right?
Not necessarily. As someone else pointed out in this thread, beehaw is currently set up so that Lemmy.world users can view and comment on posts on beehaw communities, but those comments can only be seen by other lemmy.world users. Individual instances can restrict what users from other instances can do.
5 Accounts are still unnecessary. And it sounded like he created an account on every server that contained an interesting community for him
You can follow any lemmy or kbin community from one account on any instance
Except comms from beehaw if you’re on .world; leave those and join another similar comm if you are.
Beehaw recently defederated lemmy.world out of concern for not being able to moderate such a huge user base with current mod tools. Learn more here
Tldr: beehaw comms are gonna be dead soon when viewed through lemmy.world
Beehaw just announced yesterday that they will be defederating (removing) lemmy world from view because they think lemmy world has too many troll posts. Lol
just pick one, you only need one, and you see posts from the other 3 from that one source. hi from kbin, viewing and commenting from kbin right now
If OPs only account was on Beehaw, we wouldn’t see this post or am I missing something?
You don’t need to do all that, you only need one account as they are all federated, meaning they can talk to each other.
The exemption is beehaw, because they are defederating temporarily to put less strain on the servers
It’s not about the servers, it’s about moderation. They have a clear vision of what their instance should be like but they don’t have the tools not moderators to make it so while getting traffic from other big instances
in the future when they possibly have more moderators and the influx of users has slowed down on lemmy.world, would it be easy to federate again? i know many instances defederate from others that go against their beliefs or how they want to run the community, but ive not heard of any that have re-federated
I saw a post by one of the lemmy.world admins who said they had a discussion with the beehaw admins and their ideals align enough that they think they will federate again once moderation has gotten under control.
Edit: it was actually the sh.itjust.works admin
Edit 2: here’s the link to the post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/129725
Not to be too much of a pedant, but I think the messaging is important: it’s not about how many moderators, it’s about moderation tools. Lemmy’s are a little too rudimentary for what they want.
Anyway, refederation would entail taking lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works off their blocklist. That would allow users on those instances to subscribe again and comment/post. That part would be user-initiated. Then on the Beehaw side, they’d have to subscribe again to lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works communities. That part would also be user-initiated.
