I looked up a list of Lemmy World instances and signed up for a bunch, but how do I see everything at once in one app instead of downloading one for each instance? I am new to what the kids call "federation." Thank you.

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[–] krayj@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (11 children)

You only need to sign up for one instance.

It would be so nice if this were true.

You need to sign up with every instance that isn't federated with an instance you've already signed up for.

So, for example, if you have a Lemmy.world account, and you want to subscribe and post to a community hosted by beehaw.org, you also need to create and maintain a beehaw.org account.

As the fediverse gets more mature, news of de-federation between big/popular instances becomes more common.

[–] emcon_delta@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

That's beehaw's problem. They defederated with lemmy.world recently

[–] krayj@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If there's content at beehaw that a user wants to subscribe to and comment on, then it's more than just beehaw's problem, it's also makes it the user's problem...and that means creating and maintaining logins on multiple servers.

[–] emcon_delta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But that's no different than the current internet. Like I said, it's beehaw's problem. If they want to strictly enforce native users on their instance and have their stricter account creation process to join their community, then that's no different than the current internet.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 1 points 1 year ago

And depending on the app you use, adding and switching to multiple accounts can be easy. I use Memmy which emulates Apollo’s account switcher.

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