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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Does something like this exist for Mastodon?

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just I have an experimental instance which isn't federating outward unless I interact with an instance for some reason

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that not expected behaviour?

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it?

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

At least in the Lemmy side of things. Federation isn't automatic.

[–] m_f@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Not sure, sorry. I don't really use Mastodon all that much, maybe somebody else knows?