For the past couple of weeks, some of us moderators of the subreddit r/Silksong, have been working on an exciting project. We’ve created a lemmy instance for fans of indie games. We officially run and support this instance and the Silksong community on it. Please check it out at !Silksong@indie-ver.se

I invite you, current users of the Fedi-verse, to join us at @indie-ver.se, subscribe and interact with the communities there, as they grow. So we can support both a more free internet, and indie game communities. See you soon!

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    45·
    5 days ago

    Heck yeah!

    I’m gonna make a couple celebratory posts on !gameart@sopuli.xyz.

    Also, a tip on quickly getting up to speed with federation, is to get your instance and communities set up on lemmy-federate.com.

    Since content only shows up for users on instances with subscribers, the idea is to use a bot account on each participating instance to have that one required subscriber, so that posts from new communities actually show up on other instances, rather than just the originating one.

    It basically allows you to kick-start federation, actually allowing users to organically discover your instance and communities.

    edit: There is an active Balatro community at !balatro@piefed.social.

    • ssnoer@indie-ver.seOPEnglish
      15·
      5 days ago

      Also the baltatro community !Balatro@indie-ver.se was made by the moderators of r/Balatro as they wanted to be a part of this to. I don’t think they knew of that community though…

    • ssnoer@indie-ver.seOPEnglish
      10·
      5 days ago

      I am trying to do lemmy-federate but that requires a guarantee fediseer, so it might take a while… We already have over 100 subscribers from many different instances, so I don’t think bot account will be necessary.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        7·
        5 days ago

        It’s not just getting your communities seen.

        Content from other instances for you and your users won’t show up in the all feed unless someone on your instance (or a bot) subs to the relevant communities.

        Only off-instance communities with at least one local subscriber will federate.

        You also wont immediately see new instances and their communities, and they won’t see you.

        • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
          3·
          5 days ago

          I always tend to push back on people saying “oh, the Fediverse is so complicated”, but small quirks like this make me go “well okay they have a small point”.

          I understand why lemmy-federate.com probably has to remain an opt-in service, but man would it be so much smoother if it was just automatic.

          • Raphael@communick.newsEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            lemmy-federate is the wrong solution to this problem. It duplicates data on all instances, even those with no subscribers. it increases the load and the amount of storage requirements for small instances

            What we need is a system where admins can set up a separate discovery service, and include that in search results. Mastodon is finally doing something in this direction, and Lemmy/PieFed/mbin would benefit a lot to adopt it.

          • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            4·
            5 days ago

            This particular thing IS a common-sense technicality. Without it, every new instance, the second it came online, would start to try and mirror THE ENTIRE FEDIVERSE.

            The ideal would be some kind of in-between, but that’s a lot more complex, and involves the developers making decisions for you in terms of what to pull in and what not to.

            • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
              2·
              5 days ago

              Yes, hence why I said I understand why it needs to remain opt-in. It still doesn’t change the fact that it’s a burdensome and inconvenient quirk.

              Not that I have a better solution to propose either, mind. Feels like one of those things that just is what it is, an unfortunate downside of the federated design.

          • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            5 days ago

            I’m pushing for major Piefed instances to be able to network together, so when one instance adds or federates a new community - it will automatically network to other piefed instances.

            That admin instance function would of course, have to remain optional though - as small personal instances would find that welcome - but it would automate a lot of this.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    20·
    5 days ago

    Hell yeah new Lemmy instance!

    Approvals might be queued when the admins are sleeping. sry

    Lol I relate to that one.

    • ssnoer@indie-ver.seOPEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      Most of our visitors, already had a fedi-verse account, even those who found us via. reddit. So there haven’t been that many applications.

  • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    5 days ago

    Congrats, hopefully this is the start of a cascade of other subs testing the water here.

  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
    8·
    5 days ago

    The should get a piefed community so they don’t have to support and promote anti-trans, pro-war, and pro-genocide lemmy developers.

    • Lena@gregtech.euEnglish
      9·
      5 days ago

      Using someone’s open-source software doesn’t mean you support them (unless you donate or something)

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        they recommend people to donate to lemmy devs in the reddit post, though.

        I am not blaming them, they probably didn’t know it, but it’s worth mentioning.

        • ssnoer@indie-ver.seOPEnglish
          4·
          5 days ago

          Hi! You are right, I did not know. We 100% support all LGTBQ+ members of our communities, and I will be looking into the lemmy donation link.

          • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
            5·
            5 days ago

            You should look into these accusations first to have a fully formed decision. Sentiment on Lemmy is super pro LGBTQ+.

          • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            5 days ago

            thanks! also, I think as things are now, it’s fine to keep using lemmy for your server. but keep in mind that in the future they could implement features that are not for the benefit of your community. anything can be reverted with some custom development, but you may not want that.

            there are some lemmy instances that are planning a switch to piefed, with a database migration so that existing content and users are kept. the one I use is among them.
            updates to lemmy can make such a migration harder in the future, even unintentionally.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      Man Piefed is cool but their evangelists really try and sow discord and scare away newcomers.

  • ssnoer@indie-ver.seOPEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    Hi everyone! For some reason, this instance weren’t receiving updates for posts made on this community and !Games@lemmy.world, even though federation is working for posts made on e.g. !Silksong@indie-ver.se

    Subscribing to both communities, and then going to the post on an alt account, made all the comments on the post show up. Very weird.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      You have to have at least one user on your instance subscribe to a community before your instance starts getting updates.