• PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That is great information, thank you for explaining it to me. That explains why I’ve had issues trying to find my favorite communities on the smaller instances. I think it’s misleading when they say that you can pick any instance then, it really matters for what kind of admin you get and what you can see overall. I can’t see world on this super small instance but I can see beehaw. On world, I can’t see beehaw but I can see everything else the small instance can’t. I’m starting to see why people are confused when they join if they join a small instance.

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      1 year ago

      Some of it is also federating content in, you don’t need an admin to do so for you. If you have a link to a different instances community, just pasting it into the search bar of your local instance will federate the community into your instance for you. Go to lemmyverse.net and find a community and its link then past it into the search of your local lemmy instance

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        1 year ago

        I did that, that’s what I mean where it wouldn’t work. I’ve done it for tons of communities from world where they didn’t have it but it didn’t work on this small instance.

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            1 year ago

            I tried 3 different ways and three different times for the search way thinking it was me. It has me confused too, my guess is that the admin didn’t want world clogging up their all page so they bounced it or something.

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              1 year ago

              Lemmy.world sometimes has federation issues and wont federate communities into the instance if its down. They’ve been experiencing a lot of downtime lately.