Alright so I'm pretty dumb when it comes to this stuff....I'm on the shit works instance, so does that mean I can see all the stuff on the others when I go too ALL or are the all different?
So basically you have the instance you are looking at. That instance has a list of communities (from any instance) that it knows about. A new community is added whenever somebody on that instance views or subscribes to that community for the first time.
When you go to ALL on that instance, it will show only posts from those communities (which are listed in the Communities/ALL tab). So larger instances (which know about more communities) will tend to have more stuff in ALL.
There is also the issue of defederating, where the instance decides to block other instances, and communities from those instances will not show up in ALL.
So ALL is a bit misleading since it doesn't show posts from all communities on the Lemmyverse, but only ones that the instance knows about and chooses to federate with. However, a lot of the large servers will probably be pretty similar content-wise (except for ones like Beehaw that defederated from other large instances for various reasons).
I believe there's a tool someone made that will have your instance pre-seed itself with other communities so they show up in all regardless of user subscription. Can't find it atm
Short answer: yeah.
Long answer: Instances federate with each other by default. Sometimes an instance defederates from a particular other instance, usually for good reasons (and oftentimes you're not missing out on valuable stuff). Your instance hosts your account and stuff you post, but connects you to stuff hosted on other instances as well. If some instance goes down, noone can access stuff posted from that instance (like users, posts etc.)
I had to jump on my Kbin. I should probably create a 3rd account just as another backup.
I understand why there are many servers, but why is there no central single sign on for many servers? Same with syncing community's over instances.
I'm new so not sure why or why not.
Kbin go brrrr
I'm on Lemmy.world and everything seems fine? I'm so confused.
Same here! Don't know what they're talking about.
Seems like they're back up!
They were both down earlier.
And this is why i think forums are a much better fit for the matrix protocol, it really doesn't make much sense to use activitypub for this.
This right here. The primary benefit of the matrix protocol would be that a community would keep on chugging as any particular instances go up and down. There would be no "home" instance that goes down and takes the community with it.
This choice is going to see some communities get really big, but then the "home" instance goes belly-up, or makes some, ahem "management decisions" that really hurt the community, and they are going to have to painfully jump ship again and again.
The downside would be higher resource demands for instance owners -but that's a problem that will get better over time, instead of worse.
The resource issue also isn't really that big of a deal, i've managed to keep up with tons of big chat rooms with messages every second on my OLD matrix server, and it's been refined since then.
They are?
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