Hello,

I’m currently on my journey of leaving reddit, but not having much success (not giving up either)

One of the things that it’s hitting me the most is the fact that, well, Lemmy has different instances and not all communities I like are on the same one.

Despite me reading different beginners guide of how to lemmy on github (and them having example on such matter) I’m still not understanding it properly, so I thought of asking you guys some help!

For example, we are on lemmy.world, but, for example, !plugins@sh.itjust.works is on another instance, which is lemmy.zip. Is there any way for me to subscribe to it without making an account on that instance? Will I be able to comment/post there without an account on that specific instance, but by using my lemmy.world account?

Thanks in advance to every folk that will try to help me, much appreciated!

  • ccccamden
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    1 year ago

    You can subscribe to any community with an account on another instance.

    Think about it sort of like email, you can send a messages across hosts not just on your own, like sending a message from a @gmail.com email to a @outlook.com email.

    If you go to the communities page on your home server you should be able to find communities on your home server (will look like “community name”) and not (looks like “community name@server.name”), at least if make sure you show all not just local communities.