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.

  • TwoFace211@lemmy.world
    291·
    1 year ago

    But can I comment and reply in other instances? If that’s true then I guess who cares?

    • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee
      11·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, it doesn’t matter much except when you wanna view several communities on the same topic. I’d like to be able to see all the 3dprinting communities at once.

      • Dr Cog@mander.xyz
        12·
        1 year ago

        Then just subscribe to all of them

        We do need a “multi-community” feature where we can view a bunch of similar subs in the same feed, however

        • credo@laguna.chat
          7·
          1 year ago

          I think the de facto community will take hold eventually for each subject, or we will simply have more than one. No big. Reddit had the same, each under different names. Here the name includes the instance.