Why isn't the Lemmy.world "List of communities" set to "All"?

15 days ago by MadeInDex 📰🌎 to c/lemmy_support

Seems counterintuitive to only search locally while in the Fediverse?

Is it the same on your instances?

tofu 9 points 15 days ago

It's default in Lemmy.

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You can change this in your user settings
See the "Type" buttons, I have mine set to local because I use a different account to interact with non-lemmy.ml instances:

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madeindex 1 point 11 days ago

Thanks, but this setting does not seem to be for that, I already have it on "All"

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mathemachristian 2 points 11 days ago

You're right on other instances the list of communities is "local" by default always apparently. I think it's just coded that way. I somehow completely missed that you were talking about the list of communities and not just posts, thats my bad.

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Cowbee 6 points 15 days ago

Many Lemmy instances have their own focus, themes, vibe, knowledge, culture, and more. Searching exclusively within local is useful for that. If you want broad federation, then Lemmy.world is ironically worse than instances like Lemmy.ml, because Lemmy.world blocks leftist instances like Hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml. Lemmy.world is basically Reddit but FOSS, with all the good and bad that comes with that, while other instances are genuinely unique and interesting by themselves. Federation is just a bonus that adds variety and more engagement.

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