I’ve only created an account for Beehaw. I read somewhere I can interact with other instances through my Beehaw account but don’t seem to be able to? Am I missing something? Thanks in advance!
In order to interact with another instance you have to do it through beehaw. So for example if I see that https://sopuli.xyz/c/map_enthusiasts is a thing and I want to subscribe for maps. I cant just go there and interact because I am not registered to their instance.
I can access the instance 2 ways:
1.I can click communities up top in beehaw and search Map Enthusiast and it will come right up. You can also use the communities link to just browse popular instances.
2.Click the search button up top and from there you can search !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz. Typically this formatting is on the side bar of a different communities. It looks like people copy and paste this formatting around lemmy but as of right now clicking it doesnt automatically take you to a version that you can interact with. Also for some reason putting the formatted URL into a community search doesnt work yet you have to search “all”.
Ohhh I see now! When I was looking at communities before I was only looking at “Local” rather than “All”. I can see and interact with other instances now!! Happy to have you guys as my home base 🐝 will go out into the big bad fediverse but I’ll be back before the streetlights come on!
Are you able to see communities/posts from other instances, but can’t comment on them?
Or do you just not see any content from other instances?
I was going through the URL lemmy.ml in my browser, I didn’t realise in the Communities tab that you could toggle between “Local” and “All”. This opens up a whole new world!
Are you clicking on the link to the other instances? This normally redirects to to that instances page where you dont have an account. Are you subscribed? Try searching for the community you want in the search bar, make sure you filtering by all. The format should be something like https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy for the Lemmy community on the lemmy.ml instance. This post does a much better job of explaining it. Hope it helps.