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r/Silksong joins lemmy! (And a new lemmy instance)
(indie-ver.se)
amazing! welcome a new Silkposter (me)
Hell yeah new Lemmy instance!
Approvals might be queued when the admins are sleeping. sry
Lol I relate to that one.
Skong
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.
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.
I just guaranteed you on fediseer, so you should be good now.
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.
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.
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.
Great advice! Lemmy-federate.com is a huge help for smaller instances!
Congrats, hopefully this is the start of a cascade of other subs testing the water here.
Link for those wanting to subscribe from other instances: !Silksong@indie-ver.se
Thank you! Didn't know frontends supported this.
The format of exclamation point in front like !community_name@instance.tld is the standardized instance-agnostic link format around here! It will let anyone open the community in their own home instance.
Welcome aboard.
Welcome to the Fediverse! Glad to have you with us ^^
Hi everyone! For some reason, this instance weren't receiving updates for posts made on this community and !Games@lemmy.world, even though federation is working for posts made on e.g. !Silksong@indie-ver.se
Subscribing to both communities, and then going to the post on an alt account, made all the comments on the post show up. Very weird.
You have to have at least one user on your instance subscribe to a community before your instance starts getting updates.
Oh my god. Silksanity is now spreading to lemmy. /S
What? Nah, we da' sanest people around.
Welcome to Lemmy ๐๐
This is amazing news!
Any word on a release date yet?
!silksong@indie-ver.se should be the lemmy-style link to it, which I'll just put here so I can follow it.
Hell yeah!
Not much into gaming, but very cool to see. Good luck with that and welcome!
The should get a piefed community so they don't have to support and promote anti-trans, pro-war, and pro-genocide lemmy developers.
Using someone's open-source software doesn't mean you support them (unless you donate or something)
they recommend people to donate to lemmy devs in the reddit post, though.
I am not blaming them, they probably didn't know it, but it's worth mentioning.
Hi! You are right, I did not know. We 100% support all LGTBQ+ members of our communities, and I will be looking into the lemmy donation link.
You should look into these accusations first to have a fully formed decision. Sentiment on Lemmy is super pro LGBTQ+.
A Documentation of the Lemmy Developer's Extremism from June to September 2025: https://lemmy.world/post/29072279
Nutomic transphobia is included with the post showing his original comments claiming the trans topic is "a wedge issue" that is "promoted by the bourgeoisie", he did actually admit to saying them as shown here: https://lemmy.world/post/29222558
Right I remember. That whole drama is what got him banned from Hexbear.
Man Piefed is cool but their evangelists really try and sow discord and scare away newcomers.
I really wish the relentless silksong PR would stop. We get it, you made an indie game, we know, stop constantly advertising it everywhere already.
We really need a comm for commentors who aren't lost but just plain clueless. Something like 'c/rtfa'
We are not a pr team? We are not advertising the game? We are launching a new instance for indie game communities.
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2026
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