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I'm not sure those two settings should be compatible? If it's a private instance then it means it should not federate.

I guess it was an oversight regarding breaking changes. What error did you get? It might help some people who're experience similar problems.

Keep in mind that this limitation only on beehaw.org

Other Lemmy instances such as allow you to create communities freely. For example lemmy.ml or sopuli.xyz

The way federation works is that as a user of one instance you can read posts and comment from and to any other instance. That is how I can reply to this post even though my account is on lemmy.ml

What is not federated yet is community creation. Currently you can only create a community on an instance you have an account in and it so happens that beehaw on which you are has community creation disabled.

The idea is that it should not matter too much which instance you join, but you'll find a few differences between instances such as the ability to create a community or not, the existence of downvotes, etc...

Yes, but that only works once there's one user from the local instance subscribed to the remote community. This is to allow communities to appear on that list.

Please no... For the love of Foss, no. Apple would start making private changes to the ActivityPub protocol to support mundane things like images and polls in their own way while images and polls from other instances wouldn't load properly and would be in a green bubble.

Thank god. I was thinking of getting one for a long time.

Thank you, that makes sense. My biggest concern here is that "Active" often shows posts that are several days old when new content is already available.

It is possible, but it's really no different than having two competing or complimentary subreddits.

From a users perspective you can subscribe to both !technology@lemmy.ml and !technology!technology@beehaw.org

And interact with them regardless of your own home instance.

Good point!

Check out kbin.pub, it's like lemmy but supports microblogs (mastodon-like). It's not yet fully federated with Lemmy but will try to. I'm not a user though, just found about it today.

That is how it was at reddit during/before/relatively after the digg exodus.

Does anyone know if there's plans for Lemmy to support reading and posting to the larger microblogging fediverse? (similar to how kbin allows you to).

Can you create communities in remote instances?