Do you feel that maybe you are losing sight of your lemmy.nz communities in all the noise of federation?
A good little search trick is to search as shown below. This will pull in all the threads on lemmy.nz (or no.lastname.nz) if you are on a larger lemmy instance:
I think the suggestion is for people who made an account somewhere other than lemmy.nz, who want to find posts on lemmy.nz. We have lots of users here who made their accounts somewhere else (think about how you can make an email address anywhere and still communicate with anyone who has email).
In fact the tip @BlueEther@no.lastname.nz posted can be helpful for anyone, as it will help you find content on both lemmy.nz as well as other lemmy instances with a .nz domain (such as no.lastname.nz or feddit.nz).
Lemmy and the fediverse (when working and we have all the bugs sorted) will mean that I can register on say lemmy.world or no.lastname.nz and I can subscribe to communities from any federated instance of lemmy and read and comment or ever create new posts.
You can hover my name or Dave’ and you should be able to see the difference between a local user (Dave) and myself (posting from a remote instance - no.lastname.nz)
Even more interesting we (as lemmy users) can subscribe to mastodon or kbin servers through federation
Edit: added clarity - I hope
Yes all makes perfect sense! I think the hardest bit is that when I’m on eg lemmy.world I won’t be able to subscribe there, I have to search it up on lemmy.nz. I understand why, but for the average user that’s hard I imagine.
Loving that it works with Mastodon as well!
