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If you can subscribe to communities on other instances than the one you're registered with, why register on one vs another? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am new and trying to understand how Lemmy works. I am posting this from my lemmy.world account, on a lemmy.ml community. It seems like you can read, post, subscribe to whatever community outside of the instance you're registered with. So... Why register on lemmy.world vs lemmy.ml or any other instance, if all communities are accessible to everyone?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think I'll be visiting each community to look at each thread, but in my experience on Reddit, once you're subscribed to a certain number of communities you won't be able to see them all in your feed, so that's why I wonder :) Though I guess Reddit has some kind of interest algorithm to show you stuff, as I noticed that if I visited a subreddit directly it would then start coming up in my feed more often - I wonder if Lemmy would have the same kind of thing - the more you interact with a community the more likely it is to come up on your subscribed feed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah the current sorting options aren't ideal for surfacing posts in small communities if you're also subbed to large ones, but I've seen a few threads with the devs and contributors talking about better ways to handle that so fingers crossed someone comes up with something clever 🤞