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
    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.