With just a single account on any most Lemmy server(s) you can read and write everything most things everywhere else.
Click on the “all” button and you’ll see content from all some subreddits on all some servers.
I know I am nit-picking, but this over-selling of federation as if it “just works” and takes no manual effort almost drove me away when I first joined. It did and still does drive me away from Mastodon, but Lemmy is not as problematic.
At any rate, I know we don’t want to overload new users with talks of defederation and unfederated content, but pretending it doesn’t exist makes for a very frustrating time the first time someone realises they can’t see 50% of the posts or thinks Lemmy as a whole is really quiet when it’s because their server isn’t federated 100% with every other server.
I know I am nit-picking, but this over-selling of federation as if it “just works” and takes no manual effort almost drove me away when I first joined. It did and still does drive me away from Mastodon, but Lemmy is not as problematic.
At any rate, I know we don’t want to overload new users with talks of defederation and unfederated content, but pretending it doesn’t exist makes for a very frustrating time the first time someone realises they can’t see 50% of the posts or thinks Lemmy as a whole is really quiet when it’s because their server isn’t federated 100% with every other server.