Good idea, thanks!
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Skavau@piefed.social 1 week ago75% of small communities, if not higher, don’t use lemmy-federate to expand the visibility of their community. The user makes the community, broadcasts a few posts locally and then gets sad that no-one replies (because it can only be seen locally).
I use lemmy-federate a lot to help this, but it’s sometimes too late after they set the comm up.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 week ago
Then again if it’s some guy in his corner doing stuff on his own, is it really a community ?
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 week ago
That’s another good point. PieFed has at least taken some steps to work on this, with it automatically posting new communities to NewCommunities and auto-subbing the instance to those posted there.
If the Lemmy devs stopped pushing ML propaganda and actually worked on the software, we might be in a better place today.
Skavau@piefed.social 1 week ago
I have proposed piefed instances be able to opt into automatic federation with other selected instances when a community is made. I think it might work like that now via a toggle. Rimu would confirm.
Obviously smaller, personal instances would opt out of that but for general-use instances it makes sense.
michael@piefed.chrisco.me 1 week ago
naa they do it too :) From what I understand at least.