Hey peeps, let's have a chat.
Do you have anything that you would like to see improved around the divisions by zero? I'm always up for enhancements I could implement. I can't change the lemmy source, but I can do plugins and other hacks.
You can mention anything, from tech stuff, to softer social stuff.
May I ask about the reason behind this?
It increases hosting costs and alters the organic /c/all
Would there be a way to enable it but prevent the local version that retrieves communities from being able to do that, so we could share our communities with other servers without getting the servers from all other instances. I did make an issue for this in their github, but it might be a while before that happens.
sure. Ping me if they allow it
They've just added it today, Federation mode which allows you to choose between accepting other communities or just sharing your own. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30207592
Hm, I am a bit concerned because it's meant for small servers. I am concerned on the ethical question of going in "seed-only" mode as a big server
Sorry to bother you, I know it's been a while but have we considered possibly enabling this? I asked lemmy-federate's creator about it and he said small servers was only an example so I'm not really sure anymore that there are ethical challenges with it. But it is your decision, I don't want to pressure you. I just think it would be good for people here since it is very hard to start communities on the Fediverse due to them not appearing on other servers until someone searches for and subscribes to them. The reason why this tool was created.
I think @Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com and other people here trying to start communities would agree.
OK done
Good to see things are moving
I mean just because it says under 100 users doesn't mean it has to be for that, you can do it if your server is larger and would prefer to save space by not taking on communities people aren't interested in. After all it's way easier to pull-in communities without the tool than it is to push them out, though I do see how there could be concern if many other instances started doing that. Might be worth it to bring up those points in the discussion thread over there.
What happens if you enable the instance and add a bot account for it but ban the bot account it is using (possibly silently through DB query so it doesn't appear in modlog) would lemmy-federate immediately change the instance status to disabled imediately or would it still continue to allow it to work but just give errors when trying to federate external communities to here?
I am really not in the mood for experimenting like this.
Ok good point, it is a pretty hacky solution.