I created a new community on PieFed ( !action_movies@piefed.social ) and tried using https://lemmy-federate.com/ to get federated across other instances, but get an “instance is not registered” error.

Apparently, there are… issues?
https://lemmy.ca/post/45479147

So wondering about other ways to get federated.

  1. Can I do it myself, at least for the one other instance where I have an account (lemmy.ca)?
    To me, at the moment it seems a bit ‘chicken and egg’. I can’t see it on lemmy.ca, so I can’t subscribe to it from lemmy.ca. And lemmy.ca won’t federate it until I subscribe to it. I must have it wrong.

  2. Promo communities: I know about those, but I don’t want to use them just yet. This is a “soft launch” until I get more familiar with having a community and get some more content into it.

  3. Other ways?

Thanks.

  • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If you look at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list and sort by ‘active users’ you’ll see that there are really only a few instances that you need to worry about (not the second-biggest, lemm.ee as it’s closing soon). The vast bulk of users are concentrated in a handful of places.

    If you go to the top 3 or 4 instances, to their search page and search for https://piefed.social/c/action_movies then look for a bit of text below any search results, saying something like “Action Movies@piefed.social - 0 subscribers”. That’s a link to the community. Click on it and then you’ll see the view of the community from the perspective of that instance. Join it using your alt on that instance.

    If it says something other than “0 subscribers”, then someone else has already subscribed and you don’t need to. Seems like lemmy.world is already done, for example.

    But just doing a post in !newcommunities@lemmy.world is way easier, people will do your work for you then.