They are separate applications with separate logins. Go ahead and sign up for a new account on mastodon.sdf.org.
Wait, I can just register there? The FAQ says I have to do it over shell using maint but I never saw option for it in maint. So been confused.
Others have answered your question (which is not stupid; there are no stupid questions) so I will simply say welcome to SDF, and have fun exploring! ๐
Thanks for the replies. I've gone and submitted a request to join.
Quick, unrelated question if anyone is willing to answer:
Can we "subscribe" to another instances community if lemmy.sdf.org hasn't federated to it? I think so, but I'm not even finding it easy to search for other communities. I'm looking at programming.dev in particular.
I think on Lemmy the default is everything is federated, so unless lemmy.sdf.org has specifically blocked the instance, you can subscribe to its communities. You can check the Instances page to see any instances we're blocking (none at the moment). Don't worry if the instance isn't in the list, once you subscribe to a community on it, the instance will be added to the list.
To subscribe to a community, you need to search for it from the lemmy.sdf.org instance. For example, if you wanted to subscribe to the Rust community on programming.dev, search for [!rust@programming.dev](/c/rust@programming.dev) on the search page. You will probably have to search multiple times and wait up to 10s for the community result to "pop" in, and sometimes it'll say no results before the community shows up.
Thanks for that.
Such a coincidence, I just found that instances page and was trying to search for rust@programming.dev in the search! I head you had to search for the community from your instance and subscribe from there.
Thats interesting that ALL insrances are automatically federated.
Thats interesting that ALL insrances are automatically federated.
If nobody on an instance is subscribed to any communities on another instance, they don't actively talk to each other. This means that if you're the first to subscribe to a community, you may not be able to see stuff from before you subscribed from your local instance. Once you subscribe, your local instance will start copying stuff from the other instance to its local database.
Once you subscribe, your local instance will start copying stuff from the other instance to its local database.
I'll be interested to learn more about all this, in particular how all these instances will scale up as the user base grows.
You'll need to register separately. They are 2 separate services (although there is a bit of crossover).
You will have to make an account on mastodon
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