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Are Lemmy Instances able to "talk to each other" yet? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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.. and can I follow a user from another instance?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I don't think there ever was a feature to follow a user on Lemmy, whether on your own instance or on another one. However, you can send direct messages to users on a different instance, and you can subscribe to communities on a different instance. In fact, you can do most actions you would do on your own instance on another instance, except for creating and moderating communities.

For example: My username probably looks like @[email protected] to you, indicating that my account is registered on the lemmygrad.ml instance, yet I'm seeing and commenting on this your post on the lemmy.ml instance.

If with "talk to each other", you mean federation โ€” yes, it's enabled now. You can read the announcement here: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9334. You can see posts also from the other federated instances by selecting "All" instead of "Local".

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 years ago

That's great. Thanks for the clarification!

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 years ago (2 children)

To add to @[email protected] , in lemmy you don't follow users, you follow communities. To subscribe to a federated community, go to the search bar and type [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) then click into it and subscribe.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 years ago (1 children)

To subscribe to a federated community, go to the search bar and type [email protected] then click into it and subscribe.

Sometimes this won't work and you have to put https://instance.tld/c/community_name into the search bar to actually have it appear.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

Thank you!