Seems to me the fear of overloading one instance over another will not happen after all.

But I do hope the Threadiverse can hit 500,000 consistent active users by the end of summer.

Give me that hopium guys! 💉

  • @[email protected]
    5•1 year ago

    I’m still not sure I understand how communities and instances work.

    If I create an instance here will it show in other instances? Because I did create one on Lemmy world and I can’t see it in the other instance I am at with my other account, even though I look at “all”

    • @[email protected]
      5•1 year ago

      When you create a new community, other instances don’t automatically know it exists yet. They find out when the first person from there, searches for your community (search syntax is given in the community sidebar: !community@instance <-- note the ! at the start). Once someone subscribes, it shows up in that instance’s All feed.

      To get the word out to other instances you can post in the various relevant communities as well as make sure to drop the link into any relevant conversations where people might be interested in checking it out. Since you have at least two accounts, if you create a community on one of your instances you can also use your other account as a shortcut and search for it yourself on the other instance.

      Some useful communities are:

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 year ago

        Excellent! It’s like old days php forums but you have feeds from other forums too.

        It’s a bit scary though that you can have whole lot of content and a whole community but it’s all up to the single instance host if they want to drop it from one day to another.

    • @straF
      4•1 year ago

      Lemmyworld is an instance. The other one with the other account is also an instance. You do not create an instance on an instance.

      You create a new instance by setting up a new web server and having it run lemmy for users to sign on to.

      Content propagation’s another issue.