if an instance has no users and only communities, then it’s less likely to be defederated by anyone, and easier to manage

I do the same thing (also because I don’t want to pay for tons of storage space lol) https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/communities

at that point why even say “the Reddit alternative called Lemmy”

you could say “the Reddit alternative called Voyager”

Proxying is a separate option from caching. I think it was added in 0.19.5

It’s way easier to notice and defed when you can see these fake usernames

You can set a Lemmy server to proxy image requests

maybe you could say “powered by Lemmy”? “part of the Lemmy network”?

as far as identity, I think for lemmy.world it’s the same answer as Reddit’s identity? which is a good thing, there’s a bunch of instances that are slight variations on that identity and that’s cool

I don’t think Lemmy has it (there is an open issue for invitation links that I don’t believe anyone has worked on).

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1777

but admins can do it in the signup application questionnaire and just keep track with a spreadsheet

Do Lemmy, Mastodon and the other big fediverse projects already support invite-based registration using codes?

you could just put the invite code into the signup application questionnaire, a server admin can make it say “Invite code here:”

the admins could keep a spreadsheet of the invite codes like in Google Sheets, keep track of who was given the invite code and who received it

For an invite-only Fediverse server to be especially attractive, it needs to have some reason why access to that server specifically is more desirable than going to any of the tens (hundreds?) of alternative servers that offer literally exactly the same thing. Unless they start adding features the others can’t provide (which is close to impossible in an open-source project), what’s the benefit?

Most people don’t even know about Lemmy or the Fediverse lol, you basically trick them into thinking it’s something exclusive and then they join, that’s a success

I think when you give the invite don’t say “Lemmy” just say the name of the server

Nobody is going to wait for an invite when they can just join any server.

well if they look hard enough to realize this then that’s a good thing, so I think it works out

I think that was more because of Hexbear going down?

The only thing is the community search that is a bit cumbersome, but this is due to federation, and understood.

This would help https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2951

One of the nicest things about these communities is how easy it is to have good conversations with internet strangers.

Maybe at that point people would use the Local feed more when they want to interact with their neighbors?

Right, but that’s the issue. It can give them an extremist instance

Yeah but that’s just join-lemmy, someone could make their own website that doesn’t have this issue, even without overloading the user with info. It should only show instances that are middle of the road general instances.

I just want to point out that Kbin is no longer being worked on and Mbin forked from it and the work is continuing there under that name. The major instances switched over a while ago.

could you give me an example of which community doesn’t work?

you should be able to paste the !communityname@instancename.com into the search, it may take a few seconds even after it says “no results found”, because remote searches can take a while

you can also copy-paste the full URL to the community into the search, like https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor

sorry I totally misread that as defederated lol

These things don’t affect the average user (lurker) much at all. Ideally you just start with whatever instance and only move if you don’t like it. A new user can’t really know if an instance is bad or not before trying it.

(As long as the recommendation page doesn’t give them an extremist instance)

I think all of that would be easy to add to Lemmy, they already have the sorting method for posts (New Comments), the option to sort comments as “Chat”, and the option to disable voting. Maybe file a few feature requests on the Lemmy GitHub. It would be interesting to see an instance like this.