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They can, but they might have trouble discovering it. Other instances won't become aware of your magazine until one of their users searches for it explicitly, and even then posts won't be federated until someone subscribes. So you've got some advertisement to do.
This is a general problem though which Lemmy suffers from too. Lemmy has this problem less because there's third-party websites which list all Lemmy communities and you can browse them there. But those don't support Mbin magazines from what I've seen. (edit: seems like Mbin support was added since I last checked)
One way to overcome this problem that I know of is Lemmy Federate. As I understand it, it tries to subscribe to your magazine from various instances (including big ones) using its own account, so it starts getting federated there.
@tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net Is this true? If so, what are the biggest challenges to including Mbin and Piefed in Lemmyverse?
Lemmyverse supports mbin already! there's a little option in the top right menu. (migrated from kbin)
I'm mainly interested in Lemmy communities (given the name) and given I've mostly run out of time for features, they are a bit slower lately 😅
Oh, I wasn't aware it got updated to support Mbin. Last time I checked it still only showed Kbin's zero instances (and wasn't it instances rather than magazines?)
Still, it's a shame they're hidden in a menu. Imo ideal would be if all the communities were in the same feed, regardless of which software they run on. It's about discovery after all.
I'll give it a look, thanks!