Liftoff!

Yeah I'm confused too. I try to subscribe to federated communities from other lemmy instances or beehaw and it requires a login there. That's not how the fediverse is supposed to work, is it? I can subscribe to federated communities in other clients like jerboa.

I hope this gets addressed in the next update. I want to switch from Jerboa as I don't like the UI but this bug is actually making Liftoff unusable.

I may have just learned this. If you're using Liftoff app, make sure you have the correct "All" selected. Here's how mine is set

Yeah, the way Lemmy is supposed to work is the way the website works. Requiring accounts on other instances to interact with content in those instances is, in the context of Lemmy, fair to describe as a “bug”. I hope it’s uninetentional and will be fixed soon - if it is a design choice that the devs are committed to for some reason, that alone makes this client not worth a lot.

You need to sort your feed from the instance you are logged in to. For me this would be lemmy.blahaj.zone and for you lemmy.world. As far as I understand it, the general everything sorting treats you like you arent logged in so that you can still access content from defederated instances.