listen, I'm willing to go to smaller instances if necessary, but for the same reason I signed up for mastodon.social - I want my local community to not be a desert, if at all possible.

[–] displayerror@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looks on the main page, you can view posts across all communities on lemmy, regardless of which community you're on, so that certainly helps.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But... If I'm on Lemmy.ml/c/Montreal , I can't see the posts on lemmy.ca/c/Montreal Are we going to need one account for every Lemmy instance out there ?

[–] Claidheamh@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

You can see those posts. You can see the posts of any community as long as your server federates with their server.

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

No, you just need to subscribe to !montreal@lemmy.ca. "Unfortunately" they share the same name, but they are different communities.

Just search for [!montreal@lemmy.ca](/c/montreal@lemmy.ca) on the search bar of your instance (lemmy.ml) and you're good to go!

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think he's looking for something more similar to a multi reddit which as far as I can tell at the moment is not a thing here. A single page you can go to, to see posts from both montreal@lemmy.ml and montreal@lemmy.ca in one single feed.

[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 2 points 1 year ago

really though, the UX here is not bad, there are some minor fixes needed but its already fairly close to reddit '00s (but a bit better) flow. I understand wanting your local instance to be busy entirely, but does it matter if it works just a bit more like reddit and you pop between servers and communities without ever thinking about it?