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ELI5 how do the posts we make on lemmy.ca show up for the rest of the world or do we need to be posting on lemmy.world for that to happen? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by doctorplasmatron@lemmy.ca to c/wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca

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As in the title, is lemmy.world like r/all? I'm just trying to get a handle on how this decentralized server angle works, and sorting out how to post beyond people on the lemmy.ca server. Can anyone explain it like I'm a moron, because I am.

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[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 2 points 1 year ago

I'm also new here but that's one thing I tried to understand, so I share what I got so far.

AFAIK, there is no equivalent to /r/all across all lemmy instances (servers). While in theory most of them can see and talk to each other, they do not, until a user specifically requests that. Communities on other instances do not show up in your search until one user from your instance "discovers" that community on another instance.

To discover a community, search for it with a bang prefixed: "!pics@lemmy.world" (just an example, this most probably already is discovered for you)

But once that link is established, it works seemlessly and you can post/comment on other instances as if it was your own.

"pics@lemmy.world" is equivalent to "https://lemmy.world/c/pics". If you want to remain logged in, access it through your home instance: "https://lemmy.ca/c/pics@lemmy.world".

You can use the community browser to get an outside view (regardless of which instance discovered which community): https://browse.feddit.de/