Might be talking about https://lemmy-federate.com/?
You can add the community, and the other instances that have signed up will have their follower account subscribe to your new community. Communities are only federated to instances that have at least one subscriber to the community, so it won’t show in All on instances with no subscribers to your community. That website is a way to help get around that.
Logins aren’t federated, so for counting active users in a community votes, comments, posts is about all you have.
Yes, back then you had to comment or post. These days it also counts users who vote within the timeframe as active users.
Huh, we have had users signing up at a higher rate than usual, but we go through bursts and we are generally pretty low volume so I thought nothing of it. Amazing to see you make the front page!
My biggest issue with Friendica is that the very top thing I want social media for is to share photos and videos in a private way with friends and family. Of you have to upload your video to YouTube before posting the URLthen that is a terrible experience.
Facebook lets you just grab your photos and vidros and upload them to your post. It automatically converts them from the 200MB+ per minute file your phone made into a 40MB per minute file, so people watching on their phones don’t chew through their data allowance or be unable to play it due to slow internet. It shows the photos in a seamless galley.
I would be willing to put up with almost any other issues if this part was a seamless and user friendly experience, of which no self-hosted Facebook replacement (federated or not) that I have seen can do.
Regardless of the team dynamics, what I was getting at is simply that a CEO runs the company, and is generally not involved in minor decisions. But he is moving into a product strategy role, one that by definition is focused on what the product (mastodon) does.
He is stepping away from the CEO role to focus on the product. That means you are not getting anything he doesn’t want, if anything he has more control over the functionality of Mastodon.
Only a single person on the instance needs to subscribe, then the instance with the community knows about it and will start pushing the content to that instance.
You’re on Lemmy.world, so it wouldn’t take long for someone to subscribe (if you’re the first person, just looking also pulls a handful of posts, but no further updates until someone subscribes).