Are some instances/communities closed off from others?

sonneedgym@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 78 points –

Still trying to get my bearings here.

My account is through Lemmy.World and when I visit the Movies and TV community through lemmy.world/c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film, I only see a few posts. But when I visit https://lemmy.film/c/moviesandtv, there's a lot more activity.

Did I mess something up in my settings or is this normal? Do I need to have multiple accounts for other instances?

Thanks, y'all.

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lemmymap.feddit.de is a map that shows a few things. Clicking blocked shows the corresponding connections. It doesn't show the direction, but hovering over will show you an instances number of blocks. Some of the data could be wrong, though. Last I checked every instance is listed as no downvotes. The defederation with beehaw showed up pretty quickly though.

One note, maybe don't click the 'open' checkbox because that tries to show every connection and blows up my browser!

Oh nice, this actually exists. But not very usable - I just get a big cloud of text and it's very difficult to get a sense of what's being shown.

It's incredibly fiddly, lol. As a tool for understanding some of the fediverse's concepts I've found it marginally useful

Ah, for that, yes. But for checking status of certain instance connections, not really.