I’m new here. I came over because I’m annoyed at reddit, but I don’t quite understand how things are supposed to work.
As I understand it, Lemmy is like a reddit where a bunch of individuals run separate servers. My main interest is in /c/parenting.
I see that Lemmy.world’s /c/parenting has some posts. Lemmy.one has some. Lemmy.can has some, etc.
None of these sites individually has enough posts/people to be useful (network effect), but together, they could make up a useful forum.
How do I get all of the other lemmys’ /c/parenting posts to appear alongside the ones from Lemmy.world in the web interface?
If the OP finds a post from another instance, he/she can put it in the text field of his/her instance’s search (at lemmy.world/search for the OP) to search/get the local (“federared”) version of the post.
Also, here are some communities the OP may find interesting to subscribe to, to help with discoverability:
And not relevant to the OP since Lemmy doesn’t support small posts (“microblogging”, e.g. Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon’s), but for people on compatible instances, following these two may help too: