First off, big thanks to the admins for creating and maintaining this instance!

Question: Would the admins of this instance be open to adding more specific topic-based communities which fit the futurology theme?

I'm personally interested in green energy, space exploration, and biotechnology, but less interested in AI and materials science. Other users may have similar or completely opposite interests.

Advantages: Users might be more likely to subscribe to specific topics over a generic futurology community.

Disadvantages: Additional communities could fragment the userbase and reduce the quantity of discussion.

Thoughts?

https://futurology.today/post/164245

Your instance only knows about users, posts, comments and even communities that it’s already been “told about”. This is how federation works in general on other Fediverse softwares too, but specifically on Lemmy it means someone from your instance needs to be subscribed to a community in order for new posts / comments to federate.

It is definitely a big downside for a lot of people, yes. I’ve seen various discussions among server admins of how to handle it, I think some use a bot to basically sub to everything as a workaround to populate the All feed without real users being subscribed. If your server has a meta community maybe you can ask around there whether they’re planning on anything like that?

https://mlmym.org/

Example of it built-in via old.lemmy.world https://old.lemmy.world/post/1941511

There's also phpBB for Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB if anyone's interested.

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Image upload work, how it looks here?

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This ended up causing a bit of confusion for me when subscribing to this instance's communities.

Any questions - post them here! Lemmy (the software running this site) is still in beta, as is the fediverse, so expect a few bumps and glitches.