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I subscribed to this community with alts on the most populous instances:

  • lemmy.world
  • sh.itjust.works
  • lemmy.ml
  • beehaw.org
  • discuss.tchncs.de
  • reddthat
  • lemmy.blahaj.zone
  • lemmy.ca

So those at least should be covered, but it's always good to see if people from different instances are correctly federated too

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I subscribed to this community with alts on the most populous instances:

Not sure if you've heard of this, but https://lemmy-federate.com/ is a tool which automatically does the same thing, and has the benefit of letting instance admins disable it as well if they don't want it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Thanks! I heard about it before, but I wasn't completely sure it was working as most of the communities seemed "in progress"

Also having people commenting is a way to show familiar nicknames :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Checking in at lemmy.dbzer0.com

Arrr

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I can see it from lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea how I got here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Still good to see you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Subscribed from fanaticus.social.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Comment from SJW

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Hi, good luck with the migration, we did something similar some time ago, moving [email protected] to another instance, jlai.lu, which is where I'm posting from currently 🤗

For now I'm only seeing @[email protected]'s reply, and the bot below mine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Lemmy.zip reporting in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Commenting as per request both here an on matrix chat

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I don't see it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I would've said "goeiemorgen" if I got here a few hours ago. Now I just entered noon and I missed my chance.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I can see it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Comment from LW

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Comment from Reddthat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Comment from Lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Swapped to my alt account on feddit.de and subscribed to the community.

I can see the post and hopefully you can see this reply.

However as of 30min after this thread was created I can only see the reply from a lemmy.world user, not the others.

Maybe me subscribing to the community will help federation. But feddit.de has occasional issues in general.

Edit: the fanatics.social reply also shows now

Edit2: a few more newer ones starting to show up, so I assume federation is slowly happening?

Edit3: older comments from other instances are also starting to show up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Hello,

Thank you for your comments! I wanted to have a look from https://feddit.de/c/[email protected] but seems like the website is still having issues.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Post? What post?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't like that approach. People will discover your community and subscribe on their own. There's places to advertise new communities.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

TBF, it's more about migrating the community over and trying to not lose people who didn't see the announcement post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't see how would making a dozen alts and subscribing to it help with that specific purpose. This tactic is only useful for making the community posts visible on the all tab of these communities.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Isn't that the point? If you're one of the many who likely missed the announcement post, you'll still see it in your global feed. The old comm was big enough that it'd have been on the global feeds of all the major instances, so this is just replacing the old comm with the new one in those feeds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hello,

First of all, thank you for your work on your instance and all the integrations you did.

Regarding your criticism about this approach, I see where you come from, and I wouldn't want new communities to use it. However, for the context

Community migrations are a sensitive topic, a lot of the mods I talk with don't want to leave Lemmy.world, even if they are now a bottleneck (technical details here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17963030).

This migration is a test to see if migration of large communities can be done, hence this approach of making sure that the new community would be visible to the most users possible.

I hope this make our approach more reasonable, but let me know what you think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Testing from lemm.ee

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Shows up for me (browsing via Firefox)

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