Finding content in Lemmy is not very intuitive if you’re brand new. Here’s how you can enjoy all that the Fediverse has to offer, irrespective of which instance you are on.

The buttons at the top of the home page are the secret. You can also click on the small “sorting help” button to view more information on what everything does:

“Local” will only display posts that are created on the instance you are on. “All” will display posts from all other federated instances:

If you feel like you’re seeing old posts, try changing your view to “New”:

That’s it in a nutshell. The beautiful thing about the Fediverse is you can interact with all federated content from the comfort of your home Lemmy instance.

You may also be interested to learn how to find communities and subscribe to them.

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  • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    A note on all, all only shows you what’s been fetched by your instance so far. So if no one in your instance has searched for community “x” you will not see any posts in all for community “x.” If you know about community “x” you can go into the search on the web browser and search community “X’s” direct link like https://lemmy.instance/c/x and search it twice and it will pop up and be a community that your instance connects with.

    This is all changing pretty fast as both Lemmy and Lemmy apps update so, the way to do this will probably change pretty quickly. I do believe you can follow some links like !communityx@lemmy.instance now and it should work most of the time.