gabe [he/him] @ gabe @literature.cafe

Admin for literature.cafe. Lover of cats, books and yarn.

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I agree. Mine is mainly for books and writing so I hope more people with those interests (and maybe those communities) will set up shop over here. Idk beyond that, I guess reaching out and offering them a space?

Lemmy.world sometimes has federation issues and wont federate communities into the instance if its down. They've been experiencing a lot of downtime lately.

Really? You sometimes have to click the search button a few times.

Consider object storage for pictures, that's all I can say. That, and the community seeder bot is extremely helpful.

Some of it is also federating content in, you don't need an admin to do so for you. If you have a link to a different instances community, just pasting it into the search bar of your local instance will federate the community into your instance for you. Go to lemmyverse.net and find a community and its link then past it into the search of your local lemmy instance

I'm hopeful niche interest communities migrate over to smaller instances, I've seen some niche interest instances pop up slowly but surely thankfully.

My instance has it. It's local communities are focused on a specific niche (books & writing) so it might not be your cup of tea though. But basically when setting it up you specify which instances it pulls from, how often it pulls and how many communities it can pull at a time. You can filter specific communities and instances, and it'll automatically ignore instances you've already defederated from. By default it pulls the top /all posts from the instances you specify. Mine pulls from a couple big instances and smaller niche instances as well every day around noon to get a solid diverse amount of content. You can also auto disable NSFW communities from populating as well. It's basically the equivalent of telling the bot to go to the front page of each instance, seeing the top posts of the day and pulling from each community that's there to check if it's federated into your instance or not and if it isn't itll pull it in for you.

With the way lemmy functions if a problematic community starts hitting /all an instance admin can just remove the community and it won't federate into the instance anymore. Ideally there would be more granular federation options in the future, but with the things that the seeding bot does now it works pretty well.

I’d love to see that go to trial. I’d pay real money just to watch a bunch of boomer cops angry at a niche meme that forces them to attempt to unravel the clusterfuck that is lemmys backend code and be forced to have a tired overworked IT worker have to explain 30 times what the fediverse is

Some have community seeding bots that pull top communities and posts periodically from other instances.

Thunderbirds RSS support is really great. Here’s a list of good self hosted apps if you’d rather go that route: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#feed-readers

Just because you reply so twice doesn't make you correct.

I feel like some of the major scaling issues that lemmy has right now might be aided with IPFS in some capacity

I've been tryin to post as much as I can, but more so doing quality over quantity especially in my own communities

Pretty cool, huh? I felt like I had cracked the da vinci code when I learned that. Not only does it forcefully federate the thread (if it hasnt already) it converts it like you said, also applies to comment links as well. It seems that some threads when a community is newly federated just don't automatically federate over, so you need to force it sometimes especially if there's a lot of content that's been posted since. Unsure the specifics but it's a lil wonky.

For those here who can't see it in their own instance, copy and paste the link into the search bar on your home instance and just search until it loads. It sometimes has to forcefully federate that thread.

Thank you for this! This really seems to have pretty much everything, wow.

Would be cool if it blocked already subscribed communities, and also made those that aren't federated already on small instances to try and federate.

I'm gonna ask some tough questions, but I am hopeful to get a response. Thank you for all that you do.

1. Do you envision NSFW content having a place in the federation safely? And if so, would lemmy.ml ever refederate with NSFW instances? What would it take for that to happen?
2. How do you feel about lemmy.world being the proto "default" lemmy instance right now, especially on Sync app. Some have expressed concern about it causing centralization on the platform, others are hoping that people will spread out.
3. Do you anticipate making a distinction between NSFW and pornographic content at all? And taking that a step further potentially, is implementing activitypubs content warnings on the road map?

My synagogue uses zoom and I’m afraid of the potential risk this might place them with now

What in the ever loving hell is up with France's current government right now? It's like Macron has said fuck it, lets give the fascists a way to sneak in