1. In order for an instance to follow a community in another instance, both must be registered in lemmy-federate.

2. If an instance has the “auto add” feature enabled, newly created communities will be added automatically within 1 to 5 minutes. This process is automatic. No action is required from an admin/moderator/user. You can see this from instances page.

3. If “auto add” is not enabled, any user can add that community manually. If not added, lemmy-federate will not work for that community.

Off topic, no need to apologize this much :)

Lemmy Federate doesn’t do anything special. It searches and follows communities just like normal users do. The only difference is that it does this from every (registered) instance, for almost every community. The reason I didn’t explain it in more detail is that it has evolved into an admin tool rather than a user tool. Generally, admins know what this tool is for.

However, I can explain a few things that will be useful for you outside of the “All” tab:

Discoverability

Lemmy Federate enhances community discoverability by allowing users to search communities from their instance. Instead of relying on an external site, you can discover new communities while staying within the context of your own instance.

Crossposts

Let’s say that technology@lemmy.world is federated in your instance, but technology@lemmy.ml is not. In this case, you won’t see crossposts from technology@lemmy.ml sharing the same link as technology@lemmy.world.

Initial post count

When a community is pulled for the first time, only a certain number of recent posts are pulled with it. If you are the first to follow a community you are interested in from your instance, you will not be able to see all posts from that community.

I created this tool and have been using it in my instance since the very beginning. My instance is almost 2 years old and it’s total database size is 60.2GB.

The thing is:

• If a community is generating enough activity, it’s likely that someone from your instance is already following that community.
• If a community isn’t generating enough activity, it won’t create much of a network/storage burden anyway.

Sure, it will make a small difference, but it’s nothing compared to the benefits it provides.

TBH Toastify is not that awesome.

Nope. lemy.lol. With only one l, peepo logo.

I’m glad you added lemmy.ml 🙏 Yes, you just need to create a bot account and add it. Communities are added/updated periodically.

It was something like Universal Lemmy Redirect

I created this tool and have been using it in my instance since the very beginning. My instance is almost 2 years old and it’s total database size is 60.2GB.

What people don’t understand about this tool is:

• If a community is generating enough activity, it’s likely that someone from your instance is already following that community.
• If a community isn’t generating enough activity, it won’t create much of a network/storage burden anyway.

Sure, it will make a small difference, but it’s nothing compared to the benefits it provides.

Do you think serving images from torrent would work? This can be done easily in the browser with Webtorrent, but I think it might be a bit problematic in mobile applications (maybe the image_proxy endpoint could come in handy here for a hybrid solution).

If it is in the roadmap, I can add this feature to the web UI as a start. Because it makes perfect sense :)

Due to unpleasant experiences, not the first day :)

As I understand, it will make things work like Bluesky. Users will be able to use their own domain handles while not hosting an instance as a whole.

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If you seed only, then your bot won’t subscribe. So your All tab will be the same.

Mutual mode can put an additional load on your instance if you are not following the top communities on Lemmy. But I believe it is worth it.

If the extra load becomes a problem, you can disable the bot at any time. With the “Reset subscriptions” button, your bot will unfollow from all communities.

I would suggest you to set Federation mode to seed only. I do not recommend mutual mode for instances under 100 users.

NSFW? Your preference. Auto add? I think you should enable. Fediseer? Default is fine.

Ok. I want to host my own Bluesky and interact with the bsky.app instance. How?

The article is all about excuses.

I agree that fediverse needs a personalized “explore” page in general. For example, this is the only plus feature of Bluesky over Mastodon (in terms of technology). It is obvious how big difference it makes.

I generally avoid the evil algorithms found on other social networks, but I hope we see that in Lemmy.

So is he self hosting her or what?

I got the email too but can’t install from TestFlight.

If apps are native, I think it makes sense. No one watches short videos from PC.

I will. I was asking from CPU power and price perspective though.