So let’s say I’m interested in posting on both tng.lemmy.com and on ds9.lemmy.com, but the two servers have declared themselves fandom blood enemies, and they refuse to federate with one another. Is the @flelk@tng.lemmy.com account totally unable to see posts on the ds9.lemmy.com domain?

(If this isn’t appropriate to post here, please feel free to direct me somewhere else. I’m just trying to understand how this thing works, don’t want to take the community off-topic.)

  • @FlelkOP
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    33 years ago

    But even within Lemmur (which is quite good, btw), I would still have to manually go and switch between my accounts to see content from each instance. There’s not a way for me, as a single user, to simultaneously look at two instances which are not federated with each other. The instance where my account exists is acting as a “gatekeeper” to the rest of the Lemmy-verse.

    I say this with full awareness that it isn’t a problem at the current scale. I’m just thinking about network coherence as the user base expands and the federative complexity grows. I’m eventually going to want a tool that combines multiple instances into a single feed, even if those instances don’t talk to each other for some reason.

    • @nutomicMA
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      33 years ago

      I suggest you open an issue for this in the Lemmur repo. It shouldnt be too hard to deduplicate posts and comments from different instances into a single feed.