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Hey everyone, I'm honestly really liking Lemmy so far. Maybe that's because it feels so much like browsing reddit 10 years ago and I think it's safe to say many of us have migrated from the blackout. I'd been a Reddit user since 2010 so I've witnessed the slow decline over the years but popping here has really driven home how corporate it started to feel--less like a genuine hub of community and more like a manufactured product with low effort content and some genuine discussion/input peppered throughout.

That said, does anyone feel the idea of a federated platform might be confusing to some less network-savvy users? There's other successful multi-server platforms like Discord but somehow for me the idea of a 'chatroom' versus something more like a forum/board seems like it would make more sense to a less informed user. I could see hearing that posts are aggregating from other sites or being cross-visible confusing to individuals who understand web usage as, 'visit site--post to site--view content on site'.

Does that make sense? lol Anyways, loving the site so far--hope to see it grow!

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[โ€“] HorseFD 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can't you just log in to your Lemmy instance and search the communities by clicking the communities button? You just need to look at "all" instead of "local" communities.

[โ€“] fredthefish 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe? I thought I read that to search for communities across all instances you have to use some external website that indexed them all (can't remember the name)

[โ€“] AncientKev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a new user, what does this mean?

I already signed into an instance and created a user name and password? Do I need to join a unique instance for every community I join? Does everyone just use password managers or something like that?

[โ€“] nulluser 8 points 1 year ago

No, that's what they're saying. Don't do that. Click on the magnifying glass in the top menu, and make sure that the selector that offers [Subscribed, Local, or All], choose All. That'll include communities on other instances that this instance knows about.