Lemmy Federate doesn’t do anything special. It searches and follows communities just like normal users do. The only difference is that it does this from every (registered) instance, for almost every community. The reason I didn’t explain it in more detail is that it has evolved into an admin tool rather than a user tool. Generally, admins know what this tool is for.

However, I can explain a few things that will be useful for you outside of the “All” tab:

Discoverability

Lemmy Federate enhances community discoverability by allowing users to search communities from their instance. Instead of relying on an external site, you can discover new communities while staying within the context of your own instance.

Crossposts

Let’s say that technology@lemmy.world is federated in your instance, but technology@lemmy.ml is not. In this case, you won’t see crossposts from technology@lemmy.ml sharing the same link as technology@lemmy.world.

Initial post count

When a community is pulled for the first time, only a certain number of recent posts are pulled with it. If you are the first to follow a community you are interested in from your instance, you will not be able to see all posts from that community.

I created this tool and have been using it in my instance since the very beginning. My instance is almost 2 years old and it’s total database size is 60.2GB.

The thing is:

• If a community is generating enough activity, it’s likely that someone from your instance is already following that community.
• If a community isn’t generating enough activity, it won’t create much of a network/storage burden anyway.

Sure, it will make a small difference, but it’s nothing compared to the benefits it provides.

TBH Toastify is not that awesome.

Nope. lemy.lol. With only one l, peepo logo.

I’m glad you added lemmy.ml 🙏 Yes, you just need to create a bot account and add it. Communities are added/updated periodically.

If you say so. I’m a big fan of Cosmic because I’m hoping it will fill the modern, beautiful and also fast DE gap in Linux world. That’s why I may have sounded a little harsh (especially since it’s not even beta).

Communities on Lemmy Federate are updated every 24-48 hours. You can re-add existing communities to force immediate update. So it’s a valid action.

/cc @jgrim@discuss.online

Frankly, I would prefer using Nautilus, VLC in a stable cosmic-comp. I believe the S76 team has strayed bit of the target by working on features that are not urgent (like Cosmic Edit, Cosmic MP). Still, it seems to be progressing pretty well.

I tried daily drive but could not continue due to some critical but minor issues. I will try it again when it is labeled as beta because I really like its speed and appearance.

I wanted to let my users encrypt their payload with my public key so only I can decrypt that payload. Just like how PGP works. Eventually I’ve used hybrid encryption with AES for encrypting the payload and RSA for encrypting AES secret key.

Just to let you know this post is almost 2 years old :)

It was something like Universal Lemmy Redirect

You can add that instance to “allowed instances” list. It won’t follow others then.

I created this tool and have been using it in my instance since the very beginning. My instance is almost 2 years old and it’s total database size is 60.2GB.

What people don’t understand about this tool is:

• If a community is generating enough activity, it’s likely that someone from your instance is already following that community.
• If a community isn’t generating enough activity, it won’t create much of a network/storage burden anyway.

Sure, it will make a small difference, but it’s nothing compared to the benefits it provides.

Do you think serving images from torrent would work? This can be done easily in the browser with Webtorrent, but I think it might be a bit problematic in mobile applications (maybe the image_proxy endpoint could come in handy here for a hybrid solution).

If it is in the roadmap, I can add this feature to the web UI as a start. Because it makes perfect sense :)

I’m glad you’re happy 🙏 I’m trying to keep the instance as chill, friendly, and unbiased as possible. I hope we can keep this going in 2025 :)

Due to unpleasant experiences, not the first day :)

I saw these issues before. Its probably about video encoding. I need to tweak media settings.

Though I can play the video in Mlem.

Thanks for the changes 🙏 I wonder, is 0.19.8 going to be last 0.19 before 0.20? I’m planning to upgrade if its stable enough.

As I understand, it will make things work like Bluesky. Users will be able to use their own domain handles while not hosting an instance as a whole.

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If you seed only, then your bot won’t subscribe. So your All tab will be the same.

Mutual mode can put an additional load on your instance if you are not following the top communities on Lemmy. But I believe it is worth it.

If the extra load becomes a problem, you can disable the bot at any time. With the “Reset subscriptions” button, your bot will unfollow from all communities.