Barbarian

Yup, but this is early days yet. As issues get filed on the github and more contributors step in to accomplish stuff, things will improve.

Hi all, wandering around random small Lemmy servers seeing if I can be of use. To pull communities into your instance, you need to first have someone subscribe. Useful picture in this comment, but basically you go to "Communities" at the top, and start a search with the full URL of the community you want (https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy, for example) and change "Communities" to "All" in the search options.

Once you've clicked through to the community and subscribed, it'll be pulled in forever. If you want to dig around for communities to subscribe to, go to the community finder.

Good luck, and see you around Lemmy :)

Communities are only pulled onto your instance the first time somebody subscribes to it. If nobody on lemmy.ca has subscribed yet, do this

Go to Communities at the top, change the filter from "Local" to "All" and search for "Gaming".

If you're the first one who wants to register to a community from this server (not the case here) it's slightly more complex.

1. Technically yes, but it's not even vaguely in the same ballpark. If I've understood the devs talking about the optimization issues (I could be wrong! Just my limited understanding) the big performance hit is in the local feed. That means being on another instance takes a gigantic amount of the load off, even if you're still accessing the same community.

2. If lemmy.ml is down, so are all the communities hosted there. All communities not on lemmy.ml would still be up.

If they actually manage this, it'll definitely be a huge step in the right direction. Amazonian deforestation is a global problem due to how important it is for the climate.

I actually stumbled across a much better link while helping someone else. This'll be more useful for you

All the UI is doing is automatically making it a markdown link. You can do it yourself just by doing [!test_[email protected]](https://sopuli.xyz/c/test_community)

They've written this handy guide

Mostly correct. The only slight correction is that they can delete posts and block users from their own communities. So hypothetically, if [email protected] posts starts being super rude on a community in servertwo.lm, then the admins of servertwo.lm can delete posts in their instance and/or block the user from participating there. That does not stop [email protected] from participating in their own instance or any other.

The defederation thing is very much a last resort. If EVERYONE in serverone.lm is causing problems, and the admins of serverone.lm refuse to do anything, then the admins of servertwo.lm might decide it's not worth the hassle to ban individuals and ban the whole instance.

More power to ya. I like the ruleset here, but that's the glorious thing about Lemmy: don't like the rules of your instance? Go to one that works better for you.

That would go against the concept in a pretty big way. The entire idea of federation is that each instance owner has control over their own instance, and people should (once they get a handle on how things work) move to an instance where they like the rules and admins.

If users of an instance start brigading around the fediverse and being assholes, and the admins of that instance refuse to take action, other instances can choose to block that instance as a whole (defederation) as a last resort. A user getting dropped into an instance like that, full of assholes and isolated from the rest of the network, would be way worse than just some initial confusion.

Also, should mention that the devs have been very vocal that they want to design the system in such a way that they can't control it, but each admin & user has full autonomy rather than centralised control.