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Lemmy needs better integration/federation. Too much content is hidden. A community on the biggest instance was not visible to me on another large instance. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by Anon518@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I did a search from shitjustworks for "reddit die" and did not find https://lemmy.world/c/watchredditdie so I made https://sh.itjust.works/c/watchredditdie (unnecessarily). This should really not happen. When someone makes a community there should be a "ping" sent out to notify all other federated instances.

And from what I know, if I post to !sh.itjust.works/c/watchredditdie only users on sh.itjust.works will see the posts until other people from other instances randomly come across it somehow and subscribe? This really needs to be improved.

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[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Yeah there's a tool called LCB (Lemmy Community Boost but it's not a perfect solution to this issue. A good idea would be to have something like that built right into Lemmy, where instances can have an internal account that will look for and subscribe to communities which opt into discovery.

Soemthing like how the join-lemmy site works where it finds instances, but for communities. Obviously this would need to be enabled and allowed by instance moderators, smaller instances and personal ones with limited space probably don't want to pull from every community in the fediverse, but for larger ones, such a feature would be greatly beneficial.

[-] Blaze@discuss.online 1 points 9 months ago

So like https://boost.lemy.lol/ ?

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah but have it be a feature of Lemmy itself and have it automatically look for communities and subscribe to ones that have a discovery setting enabled.