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Enable Instance on LemmyFederate (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just wondering if it would be possible to enable the instance on LemmyFederate since then we could more easily distribute communities from here to elsewhere since as it is it's kind of hard to grow communities or even just have them be discoverable on other instances.

Uh for those who don't know LemmyFederate is a service that allows communities to be distributed to other instances via a bot that subscribes to them, then unsubscribes once a real user joins. It's helpful because communities don't become visible on remote servers until someone from that server searches and subscribes to it. Due to a limitation of how the Activitypub system works.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I've consciously not subscribed to this as it messes up the organic /all tab of the instance and as other said it would explode our storage and bandwidth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I see, that makes sense. It does kind of suck though since it means that it's harder to get communities here seeded elsewhere so they can be discovered and gain users. Getting communities here isn't as big a deal , it's getting your communities pushed out there that's the issue.

Maybe someone could talk to the maintainers about including a mode that doesn't push external communities to our instance but still allows for other instances to subscribe to communities on our instance.

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