I know this is the hot topic right now but let’s not let Lemmy’s default feed JUST be about the Reddit changes. Seek out your hobbies and comment/vote/post <3

In my opinion that will do more for refugees.

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    You don’t need to change anything, you can subscribe to communities in other instances and they’ll all be in your subscribed feed.

    Ed: with exceptions

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      The exceptions might be enough to make someone want to at least have an alt account, IMO. (For anyone new, currently, one of the big exceptions is that Beehaw is currently not connected with Lemmy.world, though the leaders of the instances have been talking about it, and they plan to reconnect when some technical wrinkles have been ironed out. So that is definitely temporary. You can participate with both if you are on most other instances, it’s just direct connection that currently isn’t happening).

      Other reasons include being able to quickly switch if your instance has technical difficulties, and being part of the instance that has your favorite communities. But yeah, +1 on not having to be part of every instance that hosts a community you like. That’s the beauty of federation!

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          In case you haven’t found out already: you need to search for it from your local instance (the search bar is located on your feed, or by your settings). Then, when that community comes up in search results (if it doesn’t, try pasting in the URL rather than search terms), click through, and join from the sidebar. Or you could apply directly, I wouldn’t worry too much about getting approved. I think that’s often just a test to make sure bots are applying, rather than “are you good enough to join.”