Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! (And a new lemmy instance)
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 17 hours agoIt’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 16 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 15 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.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 15 hours ago
Yes, hence why I said I understand why it needs to remain opt-in. It still doesn’t change the fact that it’s a burdensome and inconvenient quirk.
Not that I have a better solution to propose either, mind. Feels like one of those things that just is what it is, an unfortunate downside of the federated design.
Skavau@piefed.social 15 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.