Hello everyone, first post here! I’m trying to get a hang of Lemmy and Mlem at the same time. When I switch my feed to “All posts”, it looks like it’s only showing posts from my local server. Is there a way to see all posts on all servers? Thanks!

  • AineLasagna@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    This appears to be one of the most limiting factors in Lemmy right now and is not unique to Mlem. Essentially, your instance can only “see” communities that at least one user on that instance has subscribed to.

    Example: I’m on the lemmy.blahaj.zone instance. I’m not subscribed to !196@lemmy.world, but someone on lemmy.blahaj.zone IS, thus it shows up in my All feed:

    lemmy.directory is trying to solve this by subscribing to as many communities as they can find, serving as an “/r/All” for Lemmy as a whole. But you can’t make an account there, so the idea is you browse the directory and subscribe to any communities you like, thus making them available to other users on your instance.

    • xHoudek@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the explainer! Looks like I was just confused about how the communities were presented. Not showing the server name alongside the community name made me think that the community was hosted locally

    • thepiguy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      0·
      1 year ago

      Cool! Thank you for the explanation. How do users subscribe to instances? Is that done through the web interface?

      Edit: I think I may have done it… Thank you to everyone for writing all these guides!

      • AineLasagna@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        1 year ago

        The easiest way is to copy the full url of the community- e.g., https://lemmy.world/c/196, and paste it into your search bar. Once you click on it, you will still be on your instance, but viewing the remote community, where you can subscribe from the sidebar.

        Just a note- if you are searching for a remote community and you see that it has 0 subscribers, that means no one on YOUR instance has subbed yet. If you subscribe, those posts will start showing up in All for everyone on your instance.