This likely has to do with how your home tab feed is currently set. If it says "All" at the top, it's showing posts from every single instance added in the app including default instances (if you haven't deleted them: beehaw, lemmy.world, & lemmy.ml).Thus the post that you're seeing, even if it exists on your instance as well, might not be the post from your instance, if that makes sense. I definitely found this behavior confusing myself at first and the devs are going to be talking about how this can be improved for new users. If you only use one instance and only ever want to see posts from one instance, feel free to long press your unused instances in the account setup page and remove them.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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I did that and now any communities I had subscribed to that are outside of lemmy.world say I'm unsubscribed to them. Any workarounds?
Thank you so much. I didn't realize we could hold and remove that lemmy.world instance that gets added by default. It totally fixed the issue.
Hmm.. but, how does it work in another app for the same exact post? That's what confused me most.
Other apps don't necessarily let you see posts from instances that you're not logged into. It's actually a pretty neat feature in Liftoff once you understand what it's doing, but it's definitely confusing for people that aren't expecting it (and confused me at first too).
@zachatrocity we really have to stop having multiple instances by default.
Agreed, only lemmy.world
https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff/blob/master/lib/stores/accounts_store.dart#L22
I actually thought we had taken those out. Will get this in the next release
What does that mean in practice? I can only use this app if I have an account on lemmy.world? Or am I misunderstanding something here?
If I'm understanding correctly the app would only show the one lemmy.world instance by default for new installs instead of the three (lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org) it does now. Users would still be able to add other instances and login to them as normal. You would still be able to use the app for whatever instance you prefer.
Yeah, I'm slowly starting to understand how this works 😅 Thanks for the clarification!