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I just posted a hot take about solar power on my sublemmy, how about you comment?
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/127188
Sorry if that link doesnβt let you comment but I havenβt figured out how to generate a universal link without creating a crosspost
Just checked, it doesn't look like that sublemmy is federated with this one. I need to create yet another account to comment there.
That's not how any of this works...
Communities (as you put, sublemmy) can't be individually federated, only instances can be. And needing another account is a sign that you are looking at a post on the wrong instance, not a sign that an instance is not federated. In fact, finding out a community is not federated can be pretty difficult unless you check the list of instances that are defederated on another instance.
That's not a universal link, so you ended up on a different instance. A much simpler and easy explanation than what you came up with.
My bad, I'm still learning how this whole thing works, have only been using Lemmy for the last day or two.
I'm starting to figure it out. It's a little confusing though, as when I subscribe to some communities that aren't on lemmy.world, they all show as "subscribe pending" for me. But it seems like I am subscribed? Or maybe just seeing it here on lemmy.world but not actually the content on that instance? I'm not really sure. Sorry if I'm adding any confusion here.
Just to answer this part, the pending subscriptions (mostly a problem on lemmy.ml communities but sometimes elsewhere too) seem to be mostly a visual bug. I have a ton showing as pending but posts from them turn up in my feed so I'm clearly subscribed.
Every community needs to be federated separately, but instances can defederate entire instances. To federate with a community you have to search for it from your instance.
How are you drawing that conclusion? According to the page listing federated instances they are federated. If you can't find the post on your local instance, then you can just take the link to the post and put it in the search function on your instance.
Edit: Here's the post on your instance: https://lemmy.world/post/238576
There needs to be a βshareβ button next to the crosspost button
good idea
Nice this is the sort of practical help people need , feel like making a post to explain this for a wider audience?
Thanks for that. Sorry, I'm still learning how this works.