Sorry, newb fediverse question:

For example, I can browse here through sh.itjust.works/c/general@burgitt.moe just fine. But I can’t seem to browse, say, animemes@burgitt.moe. I think I read that a user on one instance has to attempt to browse a community in a federated instance, before it will appear on the first instance? But animemes 404s, while the federation clearly works because I can see general. Does it just take some time?

I’m just trying to get an account which is on a well-federated instance. I want access to posting free-speech instances like burggit, but I also want access to post on mainstream instances like lemmy.world which defed burggit. I actually started on lemmy.world but switched to sh.itjust.works after looking at which their defeds were (literally just burggit lol).

For that matter, if I want to find burggit communities that are new to me, am I mostly stuck browsing the burggit front page, which means I’m logged out of my sh.itjust.works account?

What I really want is a good way to browse an instance’s local front page, theme and all, while being logged in on another instance and still able to vote and post. I guess that’s going to come in the form of some app/browser extension we don’t have yet though.

  • GhostedIC@sh.itjust.worksOP
    4·
    1 year ago

    Thanks. I’m glad to see the Lemmy migration because there are several incidents that made me want a Reddit alternative a long time ago, I even tried out voat a little bit (the community here is already bigger and better, thankfully). The Animemes war over banning a single word was one such incident. I’m glad to see some free-speech oriented instances because they should be resistant to that sort of thing. As much as I like being in the main instances and seeing everything, the people over there have a lot to un-learn from old reddit culture that the admins tacitly encouraged.

    • The Entire Circus@burggit.moe
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yea, I remember that war… Reddit’s been going downhill for some time, but this might have been the straw that broke the camel’s back. Hopefully it’ll be enough to encourage some to migrate over to Lemmy, even if it’s just to start a community as a “backup”.