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!

  • 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·
          2 days 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·
          2 days 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·
            2 days 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.