I would like to introduce you to the tool I have developed in last 2 days.
As you know, when you create a new community on Lemmy, it is initially only available to your instance until users in other instances follows too. To fix this, this tool automatically follows the community from remote instances.
I have previously published a similar but simpler version at boost.lemy.lol and now I remade it because I didn’t like some of its features. This time, instance admins will be able to strictly choose which instances they will allow or not. I’m open to your suggestions about different settings.
Please ask your instance admin to add their instance to this tool. To add it as an admin, all you have to do is log in and activate it from the settings.
Here’s some tasks I’ll implement in the future: https://github.com/ismailkarsli/lemmy-federate/issues
Suggested setting: give up after X number of days if no real person from that instance subscribes. Whoever added the community is free to try again.
I guess instances can choose that period if they want to. I will implement it 👍
good idea, I think some big instances would ideally want all communities to always be visible, so people can find what they’re looking for even if it isn’t popular
