I think a lot of confusion about the fediverse stems from the fact that most services default to your local instance as front page. I know you can change it in the settings here, but the setting is also defaulted to local, so maybe that one should be set to all, too?
So I need a new account to change this setting? Seems like an oversight.
I’m sorry, I was super unclear, you can change this setting at any time in your Settings page and it should stick. If it’s not sticking, it might be something with lemmy.ml
Lemmy.ml isn’t my home instance however… So you’re saying you tested this and it works for you?
Whoops, sorry about that, should’ve looked closer. Yeah, on my instance I can change my sort order and Subscribed/Local/All and it sticks.
You don’t need a new account, just that’s what lemmy does by default. You can change it in the settings to show all communities. However, if it were to default it to all, it might be less confusing to the masses.
I selected “all” but it’s still showing local when I go to instance’s homepage.
Edit: it works for “subscribed”, but both “local” and “all” show local.