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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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[โ€“] anon6789@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

There you go again, always doing the Fedi-lord's work! ๐Ÿ˜†

It did add some new communties for me.

[โ€“] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Futurology.today and slrpnk.net are missing

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Someone has to ask the admins to enable those, I remember there was some concern with resource consumption some time back.

[โ€“] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Dubvee.org too

FYI @ptz@dubvee.org

lemmy-federate.com

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wow super cool thank you for sharing

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Happy to help!

[โ€“] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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).

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Good point, I'll add it to the sidebar later

[โ€“] serpineslair@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks for this.

[โ€“] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

TIL, thank you for this Blaze!

[โ€“] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

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

[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You should pin this message, or maybe start a FAQ thread including this.

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think I'll make a guide post at some point, this will be part of it.

Added to the sidebar just now.

[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago