I’ve heard that one of the big features of Lemmy is that users from one instance can interact and follow users from different instances. But I can’t figure out how exactly that works. I made a community earlier (on mander.xyz) and when I tried searching for it from a different instance (lemmy.world) it wouldn’t show up. However, a comment I made on another post made by lemmy.world user on lemmy.ml did show up. How does this work?

    • Jeef@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 years ago

      Interesting. I just logged in with my lemmy.world user and was able to find the community and make a comment on it. Can you try again and see if its still not showing up?

      • mizu@mander.xyzOP
        3·
        2 years ago

        I’ve seen your comment. I was logged out and it works now that I’ve made an account on lemmy.world and signed in. Thanks!

      • fomo_erotic
        1·
        2 years ago

        Did you have to do anything to become federated? I’m having trouble discovering other communities on mine