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?

  • Anomander@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      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