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[jujubeja]

Is Your Feature Request Related to a Problem?

As user I want to add multiple instances of lemmy So that you can view posts from all instances that do not follow each other

Feature Description

Load List: import instance list by url .txt and .toml and .json

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thunder-app/thunder/develop/instances.toml
https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/blob/develop/instances.toml
https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/blob/develop/instances.json

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Additional Context

https://lemmyverse.net/ https://data.lemmyverse.net/ https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

[hjiangsu]

Thanks for the feature request - however, I'm not quite sure I understand the request being made here. It would be helpful if you could clarify some more details on how you imagine this feature to work!

I want to add multiple instances of peertube So that you can view posts from all instances that do not follow each other

Are you suggesting a way to see posts from multiple instances at once? (e.g., the current feed page, but contains posts from multiple instances which are not federated with each other)

This could be possible, but there would be quite a few limitations to this feature. A few examples of the limitations:

• This would likely only be possible with anonymous or guest accounts, since you would not be able to perform actions on instances that are not federated with one another using a single account
• This would likely not work well with instance on different versions (without a lot of effort on our end), because of differences in features and APIs
• Sorting posts would also be very limited/not work well since we currently defer the sorting to the server
• And possibly more that I haven't thought of

I think the best way to handle this situation is to host your own Lemmy instance, and federate with instances that you're interested in. You can then use Thunder to log into your own instance as usual. If you go with this route, all the limitations I mentioned earlier no longer apply and you have the freedom to select which instances to federate with.