r/Silksong joins lemmy! (And a new lemmy instance) (indie-ver.se)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ssnoer@indie-ver.se to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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For the past couple of weeks, some of us moderators of the subreddit r/Silksong, have been working on an exciting project. We’ve created a lemmy instance for fans of indie games. We officially run and support this instance and the Silksong community on it. Please check it out at !Silksong@indie-ver.se

I invite you, current users of the Fedi-verse, to join us at @indie-ver.se, subscribe and interact with the communities there, as they grow. So we can support both a more free internet, and indie game communities. See you soon!

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[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Heck yeah!

I'm gonna make a couple celebratory posts on !gameart@sopuli.xyz.

Also, a tip on quickly getting up to speed with federation, is to get your instance and communities set up on lemmy-federate.com.

Since content only shows up for users on instances with subscribers, the idea is to use a bot account on each participating instance to have that one required subscriber, so that posts from new communities actually show up on other instances, rather than just the originating one.

It basically allows you to kick-start federation, actually allowing users to organically discover your instance and communities.

edit: There is an active Balatro community at !balatro@piefed.social.

[-] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 1 points 2 weeks ago

I am trying to do lemmy-federate but that requires a guarantee fediseer, so it might take a while... We already have over 100 subscribers from many different instances, so I don't think bot account will be necessary.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

I just guaranteed you on fediseer, so you should be good now.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's not just getting your communities seen.

Content from other instances for you and your users won't show up in the all feed unless someone on your instance (or a bot) subs to the relevant communities.

Only off-instance communities with at least one local subscriber will federate.

You also wont immediately see new instances and their communities, and they won't see you.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I always tend to push back on people saying "oh, the Fediverse is so complicated", but small quirks like this make me go "well okay they have a small point".

I understand why lemmy-federate.com probably has to remain an opt-in service, but man would it be so much smoother if it was just automatic.

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm pushing for major Piefed instances to be able to network together, so when one instance adds or federates a new community - it will automatically network to other piefed instances.

That admin instance function would of course, have to remain optional though - as small personal instances would find that welcome - but it would automate a lot of this.