User accounts are fragmented and just because you signed on at lemmy.world doesn’t mean your account exists on lemmy.ca.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1985

Communities are fragmented and /c/games on lemmy.world is completely different than the one on lemmy.ml with its own users, set of posts, etc.

Lemmy does not currently allow for instance or user migration.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3057

Nor does it allow for shared communities (ie the aforementioned /c/games is unified across multiple instances)

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3100

We are in the early days. If you’re eager feel free to join in the development on these any many other core issues. There’s real potential here.

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      Yeah, it doesn’t matter much except when you wanna view several communities on the same topic. I’d like to be able to see all the 3dprinting communities at once.

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    BUT you can still upvote or comment on posts from different instances if you access them from within the instance your account is from!

    So you don’t need to create one account for each instance.

    Edit: commented from a lemm.ee account

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      Yea the post is misleading. The community is !games@lemmy.world not /c/games. That’s reddit language creeping in.

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        Yes, saying c/gaming is meaningless. I pointed this out to one user yesterday and got the most unbelievable snark back.

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      Exactly - as long as the instance isnt defederated, you should be able to post/comment/upvote/mod in communities that are outside of your home instance.

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          They do. This post is a bit misleading. If anyone on your instance is subscribed to games@lemmy.world or games@lemmy.ml, which are two different communities, then those posts would show up on your instance.

          For instance, of you’re on lemmy.world, there are two communities:

          https://lemmy.world/c/games and https://lemmy.world/c/games@lemmy.ml. Two different communities, synced across both instances. The reverse would be true of you were on lemmy.ml.

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            Wait, anyone on my instance? So does this mean that signing up for a larger instance, like lemmy.world will have a bigger chance of exposing me to more content, considering the larger chance of someone being subscribed cross-instances, in which case that content has a chance of showing up on my feed? Is that correctly understood?

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              Yes and no. Eventually smaller instances federate a ton of content, and it can happen very quickly. I wouldn’t be too concerned about this.

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      This is a very important note, and I am afraid this post will confuse people. Yes, there are multiple c/games, but you can follow all of them from any of the accounts and comment, post and otherwise interact as long as your instances are federated.

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        It definitely confused me. I’m used to reddit so the idea that I would have to have multiple accounts was a huge downside. Thanks for clearing it up… At least a littl.

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          You don’t need multiple accounts. While there are two separate communities on two separate servers, you can see them both from any server that is federated together.

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            That actually explains a lot. I was searching for an ADHD community and saw 2 of them. Both had similar community numbers but were different.

            I followed them both

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        The post clearly mentions “c/games on lemmy.world”, not just “c/games”. Cut them some slack.

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    This is badly written - to someone who doesn’t know any of this it reads like they’re missing out on something. Yes there’s !games@lemmy.world and !games@lemmy.ml - but you don’t need an account on either to participate in both! You can just go there and browse, comment, etc.

    Eventually one will become dominant, and it will all be fine.

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      One becomes dominant which is then tied to an instance and there goes your federation you’re all clamouring about. Man I’m enjoying Lemmy so far but Jesus there’s a lot of you need pulling your heads out your asses. It’s a cool platform and a cool idea but damn there’s a lot of core issues that need addressing.

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        What you’re describing as an “issue” is just the way the fediverse works.

        There’s no central authority that determines the ruling /c/gaming instance or whatever.

        If you tried to create one then anyone could just fork lemmy to disregard the central authority.

        Lemmy is not reddit, nor should it attempt to be.

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        The benefit of federation isn’t that no community becomes dominant for it’s field, it’s that there is no central authority. It’s open source, so if a change is accepted that makes apps pay a ton for API access (random example), a fork can be made to roll back that change and servers can switch to the fork. It also means that if one server goes down, the rest doesn’t go with it, or one wild admin can’t destroy everything.

        If one server becomes dominant for one thing and they fuck it up eventually, a new community can be created. This isnt a feature of federation though. The same thing can (and did) happen on Reddit. There are huge benefits to federation, but that isn’t one. Segregation of communities also isn’t one.

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          Imho a better option, which I’m sure if Lemmy is successful will get there, is a central app but with a public codebase and a federated ownership. A central platform owned by the people for the people.

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    Isn’t that the whole point though? Not relying on a single entity by spreading out, but still being connected?

    Fragmentation would be fixed by just integrating lemmyverse.net’s functionality into lemmy itself (like in this github issue), allowing users to see the true user count/activity of comms and incentivise them to join the most popular one.

    Needs to be done asap imo; comm discoverability is not good right now and is probably the single biggest hurdle for new users

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    We need a more unified login experience. OIDC/Oauth would work wonders for this.

    1. User registers at X lemmy/mastadon/peertube instance (activitypub app, [APA]) and gets malloc@lemmy.xyz
    2. Users visits Y APA
    3. Logins to Y APA using X user
    4. User redirected to X APA instance to login (knows user registered at lemmy.xyz)
    5. Upon successful login, user returned to Y APA

    User now able to browse/post/comment in Y APA without having to manually go through original APA app where user account lives.

    Basically each APA acts as its own IdP (identity provider); and would go a long way in improving user experience and reducing frustration.

    If you are not familiar with this flow, then look at any web service with a login. They are usually accompanied by a Google/Apple/Facebook login option; and that’s that we are trying to replicate here. One set of credentials across the entire fediverse.

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    I don’t think the post has a ton of merits for reasons that have already been described. That being said, there is one potential issue that I’m surprised that hasn’t been mentioned, which is impersonation.

    Say someone takes the username jimbo on an instance somewhere and becomes super popular. Then someone else decides to create the same username jimbo on a similarly named instance and tries impersonating the other user. Sure, people can look and see “oh this isn’t that other jimbo” but you would have to look and see.

    Probably not a major issue, but could theoretically become one.

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      As far as I’m aware, there’s no way to nickname/tag users. That would solve the issue. You could tag someone as the real one and the tag would only apply to that address specifically, not the username in general. It seems like a relatively easy solution, and any others are very hard with the realities of federation. We can’t have a central authority to check names or anything like that.

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    Ok so I’m looking at a post to You Should Know. When I look at the community info it says “You Should Know.” The only way I know it’s on lemmy.world is because it says you need to adhere to lemmy.world policies. I see nothing in the app (Jerboa) that indicates which instance it’s on. What am I missing? If I am subscribed to a bunch of communities called “Games” how do I know which post comes from which community?

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      Is this an app-specific issue? I’m using wefwef on iOS and it shows “youshouldknow@lemmy.world” as the community. It doesn’t show it for the user, though, which is another worthwhile piece of information.