Also the baltatro community !Balatro@indie-ver.se was made by the moderators of r/Balatro, but they are still working on figuring out what they want to do.
Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! (And a new lemmy instance)
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Heck yeah!
I’m gonna make a couple celebratory posts on !gameart@sopuli.xyz.
Also, a tip on quickly getting up to speed with federation, is to get your instance and communities set up on lemmy-federate.com.
Since content only shows up for users on instances with subscribers, the idea is to use a bot account on each participating instance to have that one required subscriber, so that posts from a new community actually show up on other instances, rather than just the originating one.
It basically allows you kick-start federation, actually allowing users to organically discover your instance and communities.
ssnoer@indie-ver.se 3 weeks ago
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Bot to worry, plenty of room for two, remind 'em to cross-post though.
ssnoer@indie-ver.se 3 weeks ago
I am trying to do lemmy-federate but that requires a guarantee fediseer, so it might take a while… We already have over 100 subscribers from many different instances, so I don’t think bot account will be necessary.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
It’s not just getting your communities seen.
Content for you and your users won’t show up in the all feed unless someone on your instance (or a bot) subs to the relevant communities.
Only off-instance communities with a least one local subscriber federate.
You wont immediately see new instances and their communities, and they won’t see you.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
I always tend to push back on people saying “oh, the Fediverse is so complicated”, but small quirks like this make me go “well okay they have a small point”.
I understand why lemmy-federate.com probably has to remain an op-in service, but man would it be so much smoother if it was just automatic.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
This particular thing IS common-sense technicality. Without it, every new instance, the second it came online, would start to try and mirror THE ENTIRE FEDIVERSE.
The ideal would be some kind of in-between, but that’s a lot more complex, and involves the developers making decisions for you int terms of what to pull in and what not to.
rglullis@communick.news 2 weeks ago
lemmy-federate is the wrong solution to this problem. It duplicates data on all instances, even those with no subscribers.it increases the load and the amount of storage requirements for small instances
What we need is a system where admins can set up a separate discovery service, and include that in search results. Mastodon is finally doing something in this direction, and Lemmy/PieFed/mbin would benefit a lot to adopt it.
Skavau@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I’m pushing for major Piefed instances to be able to network together, so when one instance addsor federates a new community - it will automatically network to other piefed instances.
That admin instance function would of course, have to remain optional though - as small personal instances would find that welcome - but it would automate a lot of this.
flamingos@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I just guaranteed you on fediseer, so you should be good now.
ssnoer@indie-ver.se 3 weeks ago
I SAW! Thank you so much. For some reason lemmy-federate.com doesn’t recognize it yet, but I see it on gui.fediseer.com. Thank you!
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
Great advice! Lemmy-federate.com is a huge help for smaller instances!