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!

    •  Nomad   ( @AndyN@beehaw.org ) OPEnglish
      1•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?

  •  phario   ( @phario@lemmy.ca ) English
    2•1 year ago

    Sorry, so the follow up question remains, which is how do we achieve a more ‘global’ ‘all’ view. Or is the point that once the number of users on an instance increases, then the all view will be better populated?

    Before joining Lemmy, I kept on reading the opinion that it didn’t matter what instance you joined and that smaller was better.

    This seems in contradiction to that advice.