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r/Silksong joins lemmy! (And a new lemmy instance) (indie-ver.se)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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 !Silksong@indie-ver.se

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!

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[–] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

It's not just getting your communities seen.

Content from other instances 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 at least one local subscriber will federate.

You also wont immediately see new instances and their communities, and they won't see you.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

    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 opt-in service, but man would it be so much smoother if it was just automatic.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    This particular thing IS a 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 in terms of what to pull in and what not to.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    lemmy-federate is the wrong solution to this problem. It duplicates data on all instances, even those with no subscribers. it increases the load and the amount of storage requirements for small instances

    What we need is a system where admins can set up a separate discovery service, and include that in search results. Mastodon is finally doing something in this direction, and Lemmy/PieFed/mbin would benefit a lot to adopt it.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    I'm pushing for major Piefed instances to be able to network together, so when one instance adds or 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.

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