Technoguyfication

Exactly what my homepage looks like when I’m not signed into Youtube. Seriously, is this what the average person is watching?

No. You can’t login, but you can see posts from Mastodon. For example, when I made my previous comment, I got a notification on Mastodon that I was mentioned in this thread by my kbin account.

I know you aren’t using kbin, but I created this feature request for my instance/software (since kbin isn’t lemmy, but still compatible with the protocol). Any other kbin users, feel free to check out the feature request and contribute to it!

https://kbin.social/m/kbinDesign/t/9464

This doesn’t pertain to your comment in particular, but it’s the first time I’ve realized a pretty significant issue with lemmy. I’m browsing from kbin, but when I click your link, it loads the page on your instance rather than loading the content in my instance.

This is something we need to figure out, it shouldn’t be too complicated for instances to rewrite links and open the content “locally”. If I want to interact with the post you linked, I have to copy it, paste it into my instance’s search bar, find the same post, and then open it.

That’s a pretty far cry from the convenience of just clicking a link.

This is inevitable if feddit is going to become mainstream. People have a herd mentality, if Lemmy is going to become popular there will always be a handful of instances that are much more popular than the others. These popular instances will need to scale (both vertically and horizontally) while the smaller instances will probably keep getting by with a single server. This is the same way email providers work, half the people I know use gmail, and most of the others use another large provider like yahoo or hotmail. It’s just the way this is going to have to work. People want to join an instance with their friends, even if they’re all federated together. They want to know that the instance they sign up for has peer approval and it’s already a tried and trusted one.

Do I get to see every post in every instance?
Do I get to see all the comments?
Do others get to see all of my posts irrespective of their instance?
Can I see and interact with all users irrespective of their instance?

Yes

Can I browse Lemmy if my instance is overloaded?

You can browse, but you can only vote, post, and comment from your home instance.

If not, can I seamlessly move to a different instance?

Not as far as I know, but I’m very new to the fediverse as well. Your account is tied to your instance, but there is nothing preventing you from having accounts on multiple instances. You can even choose the same username! Usernames are @username@instance.url

For example, I’m @Technoguyfication@kbin.social, but I also have a mastodon account @Technoguyfication@mastodon.social. I can browse Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon/etc. from any of my accounts, but anything I post or comment will be from the account I’m using at the time.