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submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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] 7 points 2 days ago

Just a note from a small/personal instance owner to potential others, this will explode your bandwidth and storage usage.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

That's a good point, would recommend if doing it to keep the auto-add option off since that can help reduce the burden somewhat. If it's automatically fetching and adding instances that can make the issue that much worse.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

We're looking into it ✌️

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Can you set which communities?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

You have to manually input each Community into the tool to get it to start doing its magic.

On instances where auto-add is enabled, it will fetch communities automatically and subscribe to them.

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