this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2023
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No, communities are the main federated item in lemmy.
For example, !calckey@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also viewable from here: https://lemmy.ml/c/calckey@lemmy.blahaj.zone
I would argue that "viewable from" is a far cry from truly federated. The fact that I have to subscribe to infinitely many individual communities to see all, say, "Technology" content across all of lemmy seems like a near-fatal flaw to me.
The same problem existed on reddit, and it will resolve in the same way. There are often overlapping communities, but ultimately, the users will decide what works, and one or two of them will win out.
That or what happens is that everyone goes with their local server's version and the federation isn't as heavily user. At present on lemmy.ml, you're presented with Local by default and you have to actively switch to All to go outside the server. It seems a bit as if they're selling the idea of federation while also not promoting the idea of federation once you're logged in by having 'All' be the default view.