For the past couple of weeks, some of us moderators of the subreddit r/Silksong, have been working on an exciting project. We’ve created a lemmy instance for fans of indie games. We officially run and support this instance and the Silksong community on it. Please check it out at !Silksong@indie-ver.se

I invite you, current users of the Fedi-verse, to join us at @indie-ver.se, subscribe and interact with the communities there, as they grow. So we can support both a more free internet, and indie game communities. See you soon!

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 45 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Heck yeah!

I'm gonna make a couple celebratory posts on !gameart@sopuli.xyz.

Also, a tip on quickly getting up to speed with federation, is to get your instance and communities set up on lemmy-federate.com.

Since content only shows up for users on instances with subscribers, the idea is to use a bot account on each participating instance to have that one required subscriber, so that posts from new communities actually show up on other instances, rather than just the originating one.

It basically allows you to kick-start federation, actually allowing users to organically discover your instance and communities.

edit: There is an active Balatro community at !balatro@piefed.social.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 19 points 3 days ago

Great advice! Lemmy-federate.com is a huge help for smaller instances!

[–] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Also the baltatro community !Balatro@indie-ver.se was made by the moderators of r/Balatro as they wanted to be a part of this to. I don't think they knew of that community though...

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not to worry, plenty of room for two, remind 'em to cross-post though.

[–] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I am trying to do lemmy-federate but that requires a guarantee fediseer, so it might take a while... We already have over 100 subscribers from many different instances, so I don't think bot account will be necessary.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's not just getting your communities seen.

Content from other instances for you and your users won't show up in the all feed unless someone on your instance (or a bot) subs to the relevant communities.

Only off-instance communities with at least one local subscriber will federate.

You also wont immediately see new instances and their communities, and they won't see you.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I always tend to push back on people saying "oh, the Fediverse is so complicated", but small quirks like this make me go "well okay they have a small point".

I understand why lemmy-federate.com probably has to remain an opt-in service, but man would it be so much smoother if it was just automatic.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

lemmy-federate is the wrong solution to this problem. It duplicates data on all instances, even those with no subscribers. it increases the load and the amount of storage requirements for small instances

What we need is a system where admins can set up a separate discovery service, and include that in search results. Mastodon is finally doing something in this direction, and Lemmy/PieFed/mbin would benefit a lot to adopt it.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 2 days ago

Agreed.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This particular thing IS a common-sense technicality. Without it, every new instance, the second it came online, would start to try and mirror THE ENTIRE FEDIVERSE.

The ideal would be some kind of in-between, but that's a lot more complex, and involves the developers making decisions for you in terms of what to pull in and what not to.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 3 days ago

Yes, hence why I said I understand why it needs to remain opt-in. It still doesn't change the fact that it's a burdensome and inconvenient quirk.

Not that I have a better solution to propose either, mind. Feels like one of those things that just is what it is, an unfortunate downside of the federated design.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm pushing for major Piefed instances to be able to network together, so when one instance adds or federates a new community - it will automatically network to other piefed instances.

That admin instance function would of course, have to remain optional though - as small personal instances would find that welcome - but it would automate a lot of this.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just guaranteed you on fediseer, so you should be good now.

[–] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 2 points 3 days ago

I SAW! Thank you so much. For some reason lemmy-federate.com doesn't recognize it yet, but I see it on gui.fediseer.com. Thank you!

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hell yeah new Lemmy instance!

Approvals might be queued when the admins are sleeping. sry

Lol I relate to that one.

[–] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 4 points 3 days ago

Most of our visitors, already had a fedi-verse account, even those who found us via. reddit. So there haven't been that many applications.

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 28 points 4 days ago

Not much into gaming, but very cool to see. Good luck with that and welcome!

[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago

Congrats, hopefully this is the start of a cascade of other subs testing the water here.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Link for those wanting to subscribe from other instances: !Silksong@indie-ver.se

[–] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thank you! Didn't know frontends supported this.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 points 3 days ago

The format of exclamation point in front like !community_name@instance.tld is the standardized instance-agnostic link format around here! It will let anyone open the community in their own home instance.

[–] froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 days ago

amazing! welcome a new Silkposter (me)

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Skong

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Hell yeah!

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago

This is amazing news!

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh my god. Silksanity is now spreading to lemmy. /S

[–] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 7 points 3 days ago

What? Nah, we da' sanest people around.

[–] brooke592@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

Welcome aboard.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 days ago

Welcome to the Fediverse! Glad to have you with us ^^

[–] kbal@fedia.io 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

!silksong@indie-ver.se should be the lemmy-style link to it, which I'll just put here so I can follow it.

[–] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 5 points 3 days ago

Ty!

[–] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hi everyone! For some reason, this instance weren't receiving updates for posts made on this community and !Games@lemmy.world, even though federation is working for posts made on e.g. !Silksong@indie-ver.se

Subscribing to both communities, and then going to the post on an alt account, made all the comments on the post show up. Very weird.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 days ago

You have to have at least one user on your instance subscribe to a community before your instance starts getting updates.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 6 points 4 days ago

Any word on a release date yet?

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

Welcome to Lemmy 🎉🎉

[+] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The should get a piefed community so they don't have to support and promote anti-trans, pro-war, and pro-genocide lemmy developers.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Using someone's open-source software doesn't mean you support them (unless you donate or something)

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

they recommend people to donate to lemmy devs in the reddit post, though.

I am not blaming them, they probably didn't know it, but it's worth mentioning.

[–] ssnoer@indie-ver.se 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hi! You are right, I did not know. We 100% support all LGTBQ+ members of our communities, and I will be looking into the lemmy donation link.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You should look into these accusations first to have a fully formed decision. Sentiment on Lemmy is super pro LGBTQ+.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

A Documentation of the Lemmy Developer's Extremism from June to September 2025: https://lemmy.world/post/29072279

Nutomic transphobia is included with the post showing his original comments claiming the trans topic is "a wedge issue" that is "promoted by the bourgeoisie", he did actually admit to saying them as shown here: https://lemmy.world/post/29222558

https://lemmy.ca/post/26211900

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Right I remember. That whole drama is what got him banned from Hexbear.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

thanks! also, I think as things are now, it's fine to keep using lemmy for your server. but keep in mind that in the future they could implement features that are not for the benefit of your community. anything can be reverted with some custom development, but you may not want that.

there are some lemmy instances that are planning a switch to piefed, with a database migration so that existing content and users are kept. the one I use is among them.
updates to lemmy can make such a migration harder in the future, even unintentionally.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 days ago

Man Piefed is cool but their evangelists really try and sow discord and scare away newcomers.