Comment on From a networking perspective, does the Fediverse strike anyone else as "optimistic"?

• pokemaster787@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Until someone subscribes, it doesn’t exist locally and posts don’t start to flow unless there is a subscriber.

  So does this mean that if I’m browsing “All” I’m not actually seeing “All” but “All from the communities/instances members of my instance subscribe to”?

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  • SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes

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    • pokemaster787@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That explains a lot, then. When I was on Vlemmy before it was deleted “All” seemed a lot more populated, now I moved to a smaller instance and it seems a lot more repetitive.

      It’s a shame it works that way since everyone says the “ideal” is a ton of small instances rather than big ones.

      Thanks for the clarification!

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      • kglitch@kglitch.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yup. You need to use a third party service like https://lemmyverse.net/communities and then subscribe.

        There's no reason why this functionality can't be built into lemmy/kbin in future. It's on the feature wishlist for the lemmy/kbin clone that I'm building.

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