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How does the ALL view work? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by AndyN to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hi all,

I'm new to lemmy and this whole setup, so apologies in advance if this is a stupid question, but I'm trying to work out which instance I should base myself in.

Much like Mastodon, lemmy seems to have the 'ALL' view, which as far as I understood it, would pull in all posts from every other lemmy instance. I've looked at this ALL view, however, on startrek.website, beehaw.org and lemmy.one, and the ALL view seems to be different for them all, and all with hugely different numbers of comments (smaller instances seems to have an ALL view with more posts with few comments).

Is my understanding of ALL wrong? Should I be looking for an instance that is popular, in order to get a better experience?

Thanks all!

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[–] vikinghoarder@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From my understanding, the ALL will show posts from "all" the communities that users on your instance have subscribed to.

If I (assuming I'm on your instance) subscribed to the community "news@polka.lemmy.com", you, in the ALL you will see posts from "news@polka.lemmy.com" to which I subscribed.

[–] AndyN 1 points 1 year ago

Hello, thanks for the reply!

So, if I joined a small lemmy instance and the followed all of the large communities available, they'd all appear in the ALL view for everyone else on that small instance? Feels like whoever stands up a lemmy instance should go and follow all other communities first then, before opening it up to sign-ups?