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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
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- https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
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Just a heads up, your community is not federated to my instance for whatever reason.
Nobody was subscribed, I just did
Hmm. I didn't know that was a thing but your posts (and one of OP's) did show up now. EDIT: Not all of them, and not comments
That seems counter-intuitive. You need to know enough about a community to bring it in. I can maybe see a point when it comes to abandoning a community, though that also makes less sense if it only takes one subscriber for federation to still occur (maybe a bit more sense if subscribers need to be active users).
You are right of course. On the other hand, the developers are working slowly on other issues and do not seem to have made this one a priority. And Rust is reputedly an exceedingly difficult language to learn to program in, even for someone who already knows C++. I expect PieFed (Python) and Sublinks (if still active, Java) to quickly surpass it with features, though Lemmy definitely has the edge in terms of most effort put into it so far.
On the other hand, we are still at version 0.19.7 - so definitely still a beta software rather than a fully functional one? Plus it's not meant for profit, so we make do with fewer features, and have only a very tiny set of developers working - those that can be supported by grants and donations.
Plus the entire thinking about how things should work seems to keep changing? Like, the original federation model was not built around the idea that Lemmy.World would have ~80% of all Lemmy users on it - and yet on the other hand, moderation tools, especially across instances, suck absolute ass (reportedly), so the entire Fediverse is kinda really struggling right now, and niceties such as this simply don't get worked on until the more major foundational issues get laid down. Fortunately new communities don't get created every day:-).
Which is why the size of an instance matters. You need people to subscribe to different communities to fetch the content
This prevents denial of service from unwanted communities
That's why it's a great idea to recommend new users to sign up at .world. Makes it easier :)
lemmy-federate.com/ helps mitigate this.