Since it seems to be a common question for many new users.

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      If I understand correctly, local only shows your planet and you can participate fully.

      All shows the entire galactic federation (though you may only get to sightsee other planets, but not talk to the locals without getting a visa (login credentials for that planet))

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        Not quite right. All would be the entire galactic federation that allows free entry with your planet, like the countries in the EU. There is no way currently to see the entire galactic federation, and probably never really will be because of the enormous amount of data that would need to be kept on a single instance.

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        Not quite right. All would be the entire galactic federation that allows free entry with your planet, like the countries in the EU. There is no way currently to see the entire galactic federation, and probably never really will be because of the enormous amount of data that would need to be kept on a single instance.

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      Local shows posts posted on your planet, All shows the entire federation (galaxy).

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      Local view only shows posts hosted on this instance (planet). So only communities hosted on lemmy.world for example.

      All view would include posts from other instances as well.

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        So should I have accounts on more than one instance? Which instance has the most communities?

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          No, where did you get that idea? If you want to view as much random content from everywhere as you can just browse by All. If you want a more curated experience, stick to your subscriptions. Local is sort of a weird limbo unless you’re on an instance that has a dedicated topic (like the Star Trek instance, for example).

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            Ok got it.

            One interesting thing I found is I have a reddthat.com account and also a lemmy.world account. Using Jerboa, somehow browsing with the reddthat.com account is faster than using the lemmy.world account even if I’m browsing lemmy.world communities.

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              Yeah as far as I understand it, reddthat will have a local-but-regularly-updated copy of the community and that’s what you’re seeing when you view it from there. So makes sense that it would load a lot faster. The problem is that with all the strain .world has been under, we had some issues federating new posts and comments out so they weren’t actually making it to other servers local copies.

              I know this recent upgrade was supposed to help with that part. Lots of growing pains at the moment!