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PSA: remember to use lemmy-federate to make sure your communities federate to a lot of instances

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

Communities in Lemmy/Mbin are not federated by default. So when you create a new community, it will only be available to your instance. At least 1 person from all other instances must follow it in order to make it available. This tool does that. It follows your community from all remote instances until at least 1 other person follows it.

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There you go again, always doing the Fedi-lord's work! 😆
It did add some new communties for me.

Futurology.today and slrpnk.net are missing
- Someone has to ask the admins to enable those, I remember there was some concern with resource consumption some time back.
  
  Yeah I was honestly surprised this got posted and nobody said something like "the entire point of not automatically federating in new communities is to cut down on resource consumption," because to be honest? That was my first reaction. If nobody on a server is subbed to a certain community, it will not pull in its content, which is probably very helpful for smaller home-run instances. This kind of defeats that purpose. Although its damage is limited by the fact that only people actively engaged in creating a community will try to use it, and it will probably only be used by new communities.
  
  Dubvee.org too
  FYI @ptz@dubvee.org
  lemmy-federate.com

Some other thread had me trying to remember this the other day, so cheers on posting it. Might be worth adding to a pinned thread/sidebar as a resource (alongside various newcommunities and promo communities).
- Good point, I'll add it to the sidebar later

This is so useful, thank you for sharing!
Turns out !latin@lemm.ee isn't federated with many instances.
We also weren't federated with lemmy.autism.place, so much potential users ;)
edit: noooooo 😭
- Autism.place is decommissioned
  
  I done noticed too late 😓 There would've been big business in autistic people learning Latin..

What's the deal with lemmy.nz on this? They've registered their instance but also blocked it??
- @Dave@lemmy.nz ?

Wow super cool thank you for sharing
- Happy to help!

Thanks for this.

TIL, thank you for this Blaze!

I heard about that tool a while back, but didn't know it was this easy to use. Thanks for sharing!

You should pin this message, or maybe start a FAQ thread including this.
- I think I'll make a guide post at some point, this will be part of it.
  Added to the sidebar just now.
  
  This is also great for a new small instance, even if you don't run communities, just populating your local all feed, so I don't have to subscribe to everything... I can have a real home feed again

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