• maniacalmanicmania
    6·
    3 months ago

    Someone will correct me if I’m wrong but I think that you will see more stuff in All if more people from your instance are subscribed to more communities from other instances.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Go up to Communities

      Change Local to All

      Search there.

      if you’re on an even slightly busy instance, you’ll probably see most of what exists.

      if someone is on a smaller instance, they can go to https://lemmy.world/communities, select ALL and see what exists

      For the most part, just going to all on any server with a couple hundred users should be enough to see most of the communities.

    • pseudo@jlai.lu
      2·
      3 months ago

      Yet it is the case. But if you are in a smaller english speaking instance, you should have most big general community federated to your instance.

        • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          When you follow a remote community, it doesn’t send all of that servers posts. Only posts from that comm. That way, if I’m hosting a small server and subscribe to [email protected], for example, it won’t drown my server with the rest of lemmy.worlds posts.

          • maniacalmanicmania
            1·
            3 months ago

            Does that mean what I see in All is a combination of instances my instances is federated with + the comms that users from my instance are subscribed to? So if my instance is federated with another instance and no one from my instance is subbed to any of the comms from that other instance then no one from my instance will see posts from that instance in All?

            Sorry for word salad.