pumpkin

It's because no one has subscribed to it on your instance, you have to copy the link "https://feddit.de/c/europe", go to "communities" at the top, search for the link, then in the search page go to the drop down and select "all", it should then show up.

Not the most intuitive process, but once one person on your instance has done it, it'll work for anyone else.

It's not so much of an analogy, email actually is a federated technology just like ActivityPub is and ActivityPub works a lot like email and even has audience targeting fields which map onto the same audience targeting fields that email has (to, cc, etc.). Activities aren't always publicly available, although they can be and when sent to specific people, and when they are they are delivered to the users' inboxes (although if public they can be read from a user's outbox).

Wow, I am surprised they would go this far if I'm honest. Are they actively trying to piss off literally everyone?

Yeah it's... strange? I don't know if the list of languages exist is something the instance admins pick or if it's a Lemmy thing, but it probably should default to no languages selected so you can see everything. Maybe even when you look at a community and it says "no posts" it should hint at there are posts just not in the languages you've asked to display.

very confusing indeed, anyway thank you for your help! :)

Yes! That worked. If I unselect all languages it works.

Hm, still not working for me.

Currently I'm subscribing to all of the "major" ones and hoping in time one will win out in time.

I am, also if I go directly to the community it shows "No posts" which isn't true if you look at it on the instance's own page for that community it shows 15 posts.

I have all the languages available to select selected, but swedish unfortunately isn't one of them

Nope.

I have used federated tools like identi.ca, pump.io and diaspora and I've also have a mastodon account, however I almost never posted to these and I rarely log in and follow everyone. I have accounts because I work closely with federation and want federated social media to succeed but I don't like the twitter format. I have friends which use them but it's just a flood of posts from friends and I love my friends, but they have interests and hobbies which I don't share and I have lots of interests and hobbies they don't share.

I've always enjoyed the interest specific communities much better, I generally don't care who is saying things, I care about what they say and if it's interesting or informative. I love the model of you go to places which are interesting and everyone upvotes and curates a collection of interesting links and posts and then discusses them. I am really glad we now have that for the fediverse. I knew lemmy existed, but never signed up for it until the reddit shenanigans started because, at the end of the day it's social and it needs users to be interesting, now reddit has given lemmy users and for that I'm grateful :)

I really hope the folks who haven't migrated over here from there will when it goes dark. I think if any community could, it's technical communities like the KDE community.

We've looked at the user data and carrots just aren't that popular, so it doesn't make sense to keep supporting them. We're working on a new vegetable which we hope to show off sometime new next.