this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
Resources:
- https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
- !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com to organize overall fediverse growth
- !reddit@lemmy.world to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)
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Your account is on https://lemmings.world/
Truth is I have no idea what he's saying other than having an issue with my alt account using a bot to post to a single instance
The community looks cool! Subscribed
There were two parts to it. One was marking the account as a 'bot' account. Bots are fine, a lot of people use them, but it can be helpful to mark it in the user settings. Various apps will see that to format the post better, among other things. If you log in with the bot account and go to settings, you will find a checkbox.
The other part was asking about the instance, and it's more just curiosity. I'd recommend taking a quick look at this guide here: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview
In your case, the instance is where you made an account (
lemmings.world
) is different from where you made the community (lemmy.world
). Which is a fine thing to do, but they were wondering if there was any reason for that. Most people make communities on the same instance out of convenienceI though "my instance" was like saying "my server". I do see accounts with their own instances and he thought I did. I have separate accounts for accounts for separate things. id rather this account get dinged if i break rules than the account that I used to make the fedistreams community.
Ah, makes sense.
It's just that a lot of communities are already on LW, and that creates technical issues with some instances (see !meta@aussie.zone )