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pokemaster787@ani.social 10 months agoUntil 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”?
SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 10 months ago
Yes
pokemaster787@ani.social 10 months 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!
kglitch@kglitch.social 10 months 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.