Lemmy Federate
lemmy-federate.com
Lemmy Federate is a tool to federate new communities in the Lemmyverse.

Just found out about this and thought it was neat. For those of you that don’t know, a Lemmy instance won’t automatically federate everything everywhere all at once. It’ll federate only what local users are subscribed to. So someone made a tool that will let you increase visibility of smaller communities that might not be synced to every instance.

Looks like it’s opt-in, and instances can avoid using it. Some do because it’s a lot of server cost for stuff they don’t care about.

I’ve created a few communities, and wondered why I was immediately getting ~30 subscribers, and this is probably why

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Yeah I’m one of those. Not only is there A LOT of data on the fediverse that I would have to pay to host, but there is A LOT of NSFW/nsfl things too. When I come across it I defederate it. It would be a flood of things if I just blindly federated with everyone

    • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I still think it will not explode bandwidth and storage, but I can’t argue because I don’t have any valid evidence :)

      The reason I say this is that communities take up a few bytes in the database and if there is no activity (post/comment), they don’t use any bandwidth either.

      However, I can’t say anything about the organic /all tab argument. It’s a matter of preference. Kind of funny one.