When on lemm.ee, the instance I have an account on, I don’t see comments on a post in another instance (lemmy.world), so I cannot interact with/reply to a comment on that post. When I go to lemmy.world itself and go to that post, I see comments. However, since I don’t have an account on that instance, I cannot interact with that post.
I’m still incredibly new to lemmy/the fediverse/etc etc so please let me know what I’m doing wrong!
Screenshots of instances/comments: https://imgur.com/a/MU3CXFw
That… is ridiculous. Already, subbing to another instance’s communities is unintuitive.
This will never become a reddit alternative if it’s so finnicky!
I’ve definitely experienced some jank with Lemmy at the moment, but at least I’ve gotten used to Federation through Mastodon. I don’t think you need to sub to a community per say to have it pull in changes from posts you responded on or the like. But you do need to subscribe if you want to have some instance’s posts to the one you are currently on. (Though I could be sorely mistaken - I’m still figuring out Lemmy myself)
Yes, the subscribing part wasn’t related to the problem in this post (my bad), it was just another example of how unfriendly lemmy can be to users.
I fully agree. While I do love the fact we’ve got a self-hostable federated reddit alternative that actually provides an API (kbin doesn’t provide an API sadly), it’s a damn shame this solution definitely has its problems at the moment. Though hopefully this’ll change soon in the future.
🤞🏼!