Hi all,
I’m new to lemmy and this whole setup, so apologies in advance if this is a stupid question, but I’m trying to work out which instance I should base myself in.
Much like Mastodon, lemmy seems to have the ‘ALL’ view, which as far as I understood it, would pull in all posts from every other lemmy instance. I’ve looked at this ALL view, however, on startrek.website, beehaw.org and lemmy.one, and the ALL view seems to be different for them all, and all with hugely different numbers of comments (smaller instances seems to have an ALL view with more posts with few comments).
Is my understanding of ALL wrong? Should I be looking for an instance that is popular, in order to get a better experience?
Thanks all!
I’m probably as new as you are but as far as I understand the ALL page correctly, it doesn’t necessarily show ALL existing posts on all nodes in all communities but “only” all posts in communities that federate to your node.
Since different nodes have different federation policies, you will see a slightly (?) different ALL page.
Maybe someone who has more experience can elaborate on this topic.
I think it’s less than that. It shows All posts from communities members of your instance subscribe to.
Two instances federation with all other instances might still have different All pages depending on what their users are subscribed to.
That is it.
It must be federated AND someone from your instance must have subscribed to it already.
If you know for a fact a community you’d like to join exists in another instance (and they are federated between themselves), you can search for it, subscribe to it and then it will appear in the “ALL” of everyone in the same instance as you.
Yes it looks like you’re absolutely correct.
I found a thread on the German instance feddit.de that discusses the reasons why the admins blocked pretty much all NSFW instances. Turns out they actually do this exactly because of the behaviour you described and the circumstance that in Germany you are liable for all content that is distributed on your server.
From my understanding, the ALL will show posts from “all” the communities that users on your instance have subscribed to.
If I (assuming I’m on your instance) subscribed to the community “[email protected]”, you, in the ALL you will see posts from “[email protected]” to which I subscribed.
Sorry, so the follow up question remains, which is how do we achieve a more ‘global’ ‘all’ view. Or is the point that once the number of users on an instance increases, then the all view will be better populated?
Before joining Lemmy, I kept on reading the opinion that it didn’t matter what instance you joined and that smaller was better.
This seems in contradiction to that advice.
