I heard that the All feed aggregates content from all communities that instance members have subscribed to, meaning if I subscribe to a new community, it’ll start showing up in everyone else’s All feed.
Let’s suppose I have an account on an instance with a particular thematic focus. Should I avoid subscribing to communities outside of that theme, in order to preserve the purity of their All feed?
Not quite, the All feed shows you all posts from all communities subscribed to on your instance. If there isn’t a user subscribed, it isn’t pushed to that instance.
So that one subscription is effectively how ‘my’ instance becomes aware any specific community off-instance, in order to check for posts there?
That both makes sense and is rather counterintuitive at the same time.
I think it becomes pretty intuitive if you can hold in your mind the model of each instance as a totally separate, independent website with no inherent ties to any other.
The problem is, everything here kind of vaguely looks like a place we’re used to being a single website, and each instance looks more or less like each other, so that sense of independence and difference is lost. But if you think of it like, I don’t know, Facebook or something like that having the possibility of communicating with mydumbwebsite.com, it becomes a lot clearer that that communication needs to be initiated somehow.
It is indeed. Main consequence of this is that if you join a new or small instance, you will see less of the fediverse without actively seeking it
Oh! That’s interesting. Thanks for clearing that up. :)
How can I see all feeds on all instances while not being subscribed?
EDIT: pleas disregard. I read the sticky. You must manually search for unknown communities.
If you are on a popular instance where everyone else has subscribed to other instances you might get lucky!
You can do that on liftoff app