Well if join a bigger one, the differences are minimal.
If you join a smaller server (10-100 people maybe), the All tab will have different communities as you can only see communities someone on the server has subscribed to. Smaller servers also have less potent federation bots which makes the content a bit more stale and less active. But that’s small new servers mainly. As time goes on this becomes less of a problem.
On a bigger server (600 ppl for example), this is simply not too much of a concern. On a very big server (2-50k people), it can’t even be a concern cuz they’re connected to basically everything.
Well there are different rules on different servers, for a start. Which ones they’re federated with can potentially make a big difference.
And then of course if you’re just relying on All, you’ll miss out on stuff that a bigger server might see because nobody from yours has subbed to it yet. But that’s sorting itself out over time, and you can always speed up the process by making sure to regularly do a trawl for new interesting communities to pull in with a tool like lemmyverse.net/communities. Absolutely not a reason to sign up on a big server, just a reason to be more proactive if you’re on a smaller one.
Wait… ugh, someone needs to make a cute little graphics animation to explain this shit.
I’m on lemmy.ml. When I choose to see “all,” is that just listing communities that other users on lemmy.ml subscribed to?? I thought it listed content from all other servers connected/federated with lemmy.ml??
Is there really a difference between the different servers? I just browse all (It’s lemm.ee btw)
Well if join a bigger one, the differences are minimal.
If you join a smaller server (10-100 people maybe), the All tab will have different communities as you can only see communities someone on the server has subscribed to. Smaller servers also have less potent federation bots which makes the content a bit more stale and less active. But that’s small new servers mainly. As time goes on this becomes less of a problem.
On a bigger server (600 ppl for example), this is simply not too much of a concern. On a very big server (2-50k people), it can’t even be a concern cuz they’re connected to basically everything.
Well there are different rules on different servers, for a start. Which ones they’re federated with can potentially make a big difference.
And then of course if you’re just relying on All, you’ll miss out on stuff that a bigger server might see because nobody from yours has subbed to it yet. But that’s sorting itself out over time, and you can always speed up the process by making sure to regularly do a trawl for new interesting communities to pull in with a tool like lemmyverse.net/communities. Absolutely not a reason to sign up on a big server, just a reason to be more proactive if you’re on a smaller one.
Wait… ugh, someone needs to make a cute little graphics animation to explain this shit.
I’m on lemmy.ml. When I choose to see “all,” is that just listing communities that other users on lemmy.ml subscribed to?? I thought it listed content from all other servers connected/federated with lemmy.ml??