For the past couple of weeks, some of us moderators of the subreddit r/Silksong, have been working on an exciting project. We’ve created a lemmy instance for fans of indie games. We officially run and support this instance and the Silksong community on it. Please check it out at indie-ver.se/c/Silksong

I invite you, current users of the Fedi-verse, to join us at @indie-ver.se, subscribe and interact with the communities there, as they grow. So we can support both a more free internet, and indie game communities. See you soon!

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    35·
    2 days 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.seOPEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      Also the baltatro community !Balatro@indie-ver.se was made by the moderators of r/Balatro as they wanted to be a part of this to. I don’t think they knew of that community though…

    • ssnoer@indie-ver.seOPEnglish
      9·
      2 days 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.xyzEnglish
        5·
        2 days 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.nuEnglish
          2·
          2 days 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.

          • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            1 day 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.

          • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            1 day 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.nuEnglish
              1·
              1 day 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.