Yeah I'm confused too. I try to subscribe to federated communities from other lemmy instances or beehaw and it requires a login there. That's not how the fediverse is supposed to work, is it? I can subscribe to federated communities in other clients like jerboa.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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Beehaw has defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, link to post here. Since your account is created on lemmy.world, you can't interact or subscribe to their communities. I wish these things were a bit more straightforward.
I hope this gets addressed in the next update. I want to switch from Jerboa as I don't like the UI but this bug is actually making Liftoff unusable.
I may have just learned this. If you're using Liftoff app, make sure you have the correct "All" selected. Here's how mine is set 
Yep it's a bit unintuitive when the app starts up showing All for all instances installed and needs switched like you showed.
It's a similar issue if you use the search to find a community and don't have "instance:" drop down set to the instance you're logged in with. It'll likely give you the same results both ways visually, but only one set of results will be ones you can subscribe/interact with.
Kind of wish you could just set an active instance where searching or visiting subs would just take you to that instance's link to the sub if possible.
Yeah, the way Lemmy is supposed to work is the way the website works. Requiring accounts on other instances to interact with content in those instances is, in the context of Lemmy, fair to describe as a “bug”. I hope it’s uninetentional and will be fixed soon - if it is a design choice that the devs are committed to for some reason, that alone makes this client not worth a lot.
You need to sort your feed from the instance you are logged in to. For me this would be lemmy.blahaj.zone and for you lemmy.world. As far as I understand it, the general everything sorting treats you like you arent logged in so that you can still access content from defederated instances.