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 22 hours 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 21 hours ago
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 17 hours ago
Bot to worry, plenty of room for two, remind 'em to cross-post though.
ssnoer@indie-ver.se 21 hours 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 20 hours 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 19 hours 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 19 hours 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.
Skavau@piefed.social 19 hours 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 20 hours ago
I just guaranteed you on fediseer, so you should be good now.
ssnoer@indie-ver.se 19 hours 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 21 hours ago
Great advice! Lemmy-federate.com is a huge help for smaller instances!