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.
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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. -
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.
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Other ways?
Thanks.
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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.
Thanks! Managed to get subscribed to it from my lemmy.ca account.
Once I’m more prepared, I’ll post on !newcommunities@lemmy.world.
Sounds good! !communitypromo@lemmy.ca can also help
Thanks
The vast bulk of users are concentrated in a handful of places.
It’s not that clear. When I would manually federate a community using alts, I would still use around 15 alts to make sure to cover at least the most active instances: https://piefed.social/post/822677
But just doing a post in !newcommunities@lemmy.world is way easier, people will do your work for you then.
A potential issue is that the first joiner on an instance sees that the community doesn’t exist, or is empty, so doesn’t subscribe, and the other new joiners do the same, so in the end nobody subscribes. I’ve had situation where my account was the only subscriber on a community for quite a while (people probably liked the content, but just added it to a feed rather than subscribing)
FYI @klu9@piefed.social , there is an issue open for this: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/761
Thanks for the info.
Simply search for !action_movies@piefed.social on lemmy.ca. The instance will fetch the community from PieFed and you will be able to subscribe to it.
Thanks! I was searching for “action movies” with no results, but entering “!action_movies@piefed.social” worked.
Piefed doesn’t work with it. You’d have to make alts and subscribe to it on those accounts across the fediverse, I believe.
Thanks. I’ve managed to subscribe to it with my lemmy.ca account.
