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submitted 1 year ago by xHoudek to c/[email protected]
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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!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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 [email protected], 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 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The other thing that can be confusing is that community names are not unique across instances. So, in my example, there is a “196” community on lemmy.world- https://lemmy.world/c/196- which is why it shows me the server name, but someone else has also created a 196 community on my instance, https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/196, which does NOT show the server name because it’s local:

These two “196” communities are completely discrete and have no interaction or shared content between them. Although a multireddit-like feature has been requested, so you could at least create a single feed containing both of these communities if that gets implemented.

[–] balder1991 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is how Mastodon works as well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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 (in the search results), 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is confusing me as well. Where do I go for a search to uncover new sub whatever they are called and then how do I change to only see posts from that sub? Using Mlem as well and as far as it goes it seems to be ok, just missing the filter and search options for now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's the downside of federation. It would be very hard to implement and come at humongous costs/traffic.

[–] TragicNotCute 1 points 1 year ago

I'm still confused. I feel like when I go to Mlem and go "All" posts sorted by Hot, I see one thing. And when I go to my instance and click "All" posts sorted by Hot, I get something very different. Why is that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine seems to be showing posts from other instances, but I'm not sure what I did to achieve this. Have you, while logged into your local instance, subscribed to communities on another instance yet? Maybe that has something to do with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

All it takes is one person on your instance to search for a community on another and from then on your instance will track it and show in all. Only an admin could remove it after that single user triggers the search. The more users on your instance the more likely it is that at one searched for something else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

From what I can tell, I don’t think so? The subscribed shows all the subscriptions from across servers, but the “all posts” seems to match the Lemmy desktop of “Local”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm whenever I switch my feeds to “all posts” I’m pretty sure I can see everything on Mlem. I’m honestly not sure what the issue could be that makes you not able to see everything since it’s all pretty new to me too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Only communities which are known by the local server can be shown. (More specifically, only communities that any user on the local server has subscribed to)

I've made an issue to clarify this wording, possibly: https://github.com/buresdv/Mlem/issues/128

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