I’ve noticed it with connect but they are there with Jebora. I’ve also noticed it’s hard to search for communities. But I think that may be a Lemmy issue.

I’ve never heard about this. You should send an email to all the developers of the 3rd party Lemmy apps to let them know. Could be a good consideration to allow to disable this in accessibility features.

Once you subscribe, your local instance will start copying stuff from the other instance to its local database.

I’ll be interested to learn more about all this, in particular how all these instances will scale up as the user base grows.

Thanks for that.

Such a coincidence, I just found that instances page and was trying to search for [email protected] in the search! I head you had to search for the community from your instance and subscribe from there.

Thats interesting that ALL insrances are automatically federated.

Thanks for the replies. I’ve gone and submitted a request to join.

Quick, unrelated question if anyone is willing to answer:

Can we “subscribe” to another instances community if lemmy.sdf.org hasn’t federated to it? I think so, but I’m not even finding it easy to search for other communities. I’m looking at programming.dev in particular.