I don't understand. - Lemmy.world

I looked up a list of Lemmy World instances and signed up for a bunch, but how do I see everything at once in one app instead of downloading one for each instance? I am new to what the kids call “federation.” Thank you.

You only need to sign up for one instance. What app are you using or is it the browser?

You only need to sign up for one instance.

It would be so nice if this were true.

You need to sign up with every instance that isn’t federated with an instance you’ve already signed up for.

So, for example, if you have a Lemmy.world account, and you want to subscribe and post to a community hosted by beehaw.org, you also need to create and maintain a beehaw.org account.

As the fediverse gets more mature, news of de-federation between big/popular instances becomes more common.

That’s beehaw’s problem. They degenerated with lemmy.world recently
Your statement may be true but that does not make it helpful
I doubt it was meant to be helpful. It’s just the reality. Just as a lot of people left Reddit for specific reasons. The same will probably apply to different instances choosing to block off large chunks of the fediverse.