Just found out about this and thought it was neat. For those of you that don’t know, a Lemmy instance won’t automatically federate everything everywhere all at once. It’ll federate only what local users are subscribed to. So someone made a tool that will let you increase visibility of smaller communities that might not be synced to every instance.
Looks like it’s opt-in, and instances can avoid using it. Some do because it’s a lot of server cost for stuff they don’t care about.
I’ve created a few communities, and wondered why I was immediately getting ~30 subscribers, and this is probably why
Does something like this exist for Mastodon?
Probably wouldn’t be well received since for them it’s individual people, not communities which you follow. Would be considered botting their profiles. It’s different with communities though.
Just I have an experimental instance which isn’t federating outward unless I interact with an instance for some reason
Not sure, sorry. I don’t really use Mastodon all that much, maybe somebody else knows?