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How do I get added to the list of instances? (redlemmy.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What's the process? Is the list federated, meaning, does my joining this list populate available instances across the fediverse? Or is it isolated to join - Lemmy?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Not sure but joining this may help you too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

(that link needs the 'https' part in to work)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This is why I should check my links, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's in the Lemmy docs. You need to have federation enabled, https, a banner image, description set, and maybe something else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The act of making a first post or comment is all that's required for other instances to become aware of yours. Your site is already in their /instances page and at places like https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/redlemmy.com

From what I can tell re join-lemmy, the list there is just for that site, and it's fed by the lemmy-stats-crawler (you'll be able to see it in your nginx logs). There's a restriction of needing 5+ active users a month though, which it doesn't look like your site quite meets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Very cool, thanks for the info