yardy_sardley, 2 years ago

The way I think it works is that your local instance hosts its own communities, and then it will reach out to other instances to grab content from every external community that at least one local user has subscribed to. “All” mode is limited to that set of content.

So I think the only way to see the entire set of all content on lemmy would be to meticulously subscribe to every single community on every single instance.

And someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but I think you can still subscribe to subs on defederated instances, it’s just the interactions that don’t get passed back and forth.