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Not that it is not interesting but I would like just a tad more variety on the front page.

Edit btw for those who are wondering the two communities I started are https://lemmy.world/c/newmusic and https://kbin.social/m/musicfeedback/microblog (not sure if I have the links correct for people)

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[–] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just posted a hot take about solar power on my sublemmy, how about you comment?

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/127188

Sorry if that link doesn’t let you comment but I haven’t figured out how to generate a universal link without creating a crosspost

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just checked, it doesn't look like that sublemmy is federated with this one. I need to create yet another account to comment there.

[–] AgentGoldfish@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That's not how any of this works...

Communities (as you put, sublemmy) can't be individually federated, only instances can be. And needing another account is a sign that you are looking at a post on the wrong instance, not a sign that an instance is not federated. In fact, finding out a community is not federated can be pretty difficult unless you check the list of instances that are defederated on another instance.

That's not a universal link, so you ended up on a different instance. A much simpler and easy explanation than what you came up with.

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My bad, I'm still learning how this whole thing works, have only been using Lemmy for the last day or two.

I'm starting to figure it out. It's a little confusing though, as when I subscribe to some communities that aren't on lemmy.world, they all show as "subscribe pending" for me. But it seems like I am subscribed? Or maybe just seeing it here on lemmy.world but not actually the content on that instance? I'm not really sure. Sorry if I'm adding any confusion here.

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Just to answer this part, the pending subscriptions (mostly a problem on lemmy.ml communities but sometimes elsewhere too) seem to be mostly a visual bug. I have a ton showing as pending but posts from them turn up in my feed so I'm clearly subscribed.

[–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Every community needs to be federated separately, but instances can defederate entire instances. To federate with a community you have to search for it from your instance.

[–] ActuallyRuben@actuallyruben.nl 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

How are you drawing that conclusion? According to the page listing federated instances they are federated. If you can't find the post on your local instance, then you can just take the link to the post and put it in the search function on your instance.

Edit: Here's the post on your instance: https://lemmy.world/post/238576

[–] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There needs to be a β€œshare” button next to the crosspost button

[–] phil299@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nice this is the sort of practical help people need , feel like making a post to explain this for a wider audience?

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that. Sorry, I'm still learning how this works.