Yea some countries have strict piracy laws, that's why using a VPN and following basic privacy becomes necessary while pirating.

Right now it's not even mastodon compatible let alone lemmy. There are some arguments on how federating with them will allow people to migrate to a more privacy respecting instance and still view threads content, and some users say this will allow them to still communicate with their friends who don't want to switch away from threads.

So while we do lean towards defederating from it, it's some months away before we need to actually decide and till then we are simply listening to and discussing both sides of the argument.

fyi they have added themes now so you might find a look that suits your tastes better, if none of them do then you can raise an issue on thier github or add an external theme

users won't want to use an instance that can't view content from threads (since that where's most content would be), but they'll be much more open to joining an open source instance that federated and views stuff from there as well.

looking at the app it seems it's launched with just local content feed with a promise of being mastodon compatible in the future. I guess specifically to generate some unqiue content so people join.

welcome. On the side bar on the right there is a pencil button which you can click to edit the community and icon, banners and description.

No, they are corrrect, I guess I should have added this part in the post too. The way federation works on lemmy is only after someone searches and subcribes to a community for the first time from another instance, only then is the information about an instance fetched.

This is done this way to prevent flooding and overloading the local instance with every single other instance at once (and to not waste bandwidth connecing with spam intances). So if you set up your own personal instance, you'll need to search interesting communities once yourself to view them later (or set up a script to do something like it).

Interesting thanks for linking it. I was under the impression that both platforms couldnt see each other yet. I'll edit the post.

There are many ways, best would be to either create a pull request on github or join us on our revolt instance.

You can create a post here toom but once (if) the community becomes more active it might get buried in other posts.

Make sure you're logged in and viewing it from the instance you made the account on, it doesn't show vote counts for logged out users.

Thanks this is very nice

Pretty nice I'll add it to the list thanks!