There seems to be some bugs with federation here and there… for example there are lots of interesting communities you can subscribe to, here are some of them: https://lemmy.one/communities/listing_type/All/page/1
These will all work and they would show up on your front page if you enabled your front page to work like that in your settings. However some are mastodon accounts and who knows what else, it’s not super clear.
There seems to be some bugs with federation here and there… for example there are lots of interesting communities you can subscribe to, here are some of them: https://lemmy.one/communities/listing_type/All/page/1
These will all work and they would show up on your front page if you enabled your front page to work like that in your settings. However some are mastodon accounts and who knows what else, it’s not super clear.
https://lemmy.ml/communities and https://beehaw.org/communities has some nice communities that I might wanna subscribe to but and sometimes you can just search for
!firefox@lemmy.mllocally and it works. like this:https://lemmy.one/c/firefox@lemmy.ml
and you would think this should work: https://lemmy.one/c/gaming@beehaw.org
but 404… can’t search for it either.
Maybe that instance disabled federation in some way? Maybe this instance is too new so the other one has to allow it? it’s unclear.
Lemmy seems real cool and it should work fine for local discussion just like any subreddit but federation might be sorta fuzzy…