User accounts are fragmented and just because you signed on at lemmy.world doesn’t mean your account exists on lemmy.ca.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1985

Communities are fragmented and /c/games on lemmy.world is completely different than the one on lemmy.ml with its own users, set of posts, etc.

Lemmy does not currently allow for instance or user migration.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3057

Nor does it allow for shared communities (ie the aforementioned /c/games is unified across multiple instances)

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3100

We are in the early days. If you’re eager feel free to join in the development on these any many other core issues. There’s real potential here.

  • jorge
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    31 year ago

    In theory, yes. But in practice, any decent-sized instance is already exposed to all communities of the other decent-sized instances.

    And you can always “introduce” your instance to communities that you find with external tools, like https://lemmyverse.net/communities

    Keep in mind that joining a larger instance also has its cons, like more server load (lemmy.world is having issues with this), moderation, etc.

    • @GoosLife@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      Wow, that is pretty neat! And thanks for introducing me to the lemmyverse explorer. This is honestly all pretty exciting.