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
    5·
    16 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

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

      Just something of note, the program has options to not federate NSFW content in its settings, so it’ll ignore communities and instances marked as such.