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

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[–] Blaze 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Small disclaimer: some instance owners prefer to not enable it due to network and storage consumption: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28227815?scrollToComments=true

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm one of those. Not only is there A LOT of data on the fediverse that I would have to pay to host, but there is A LOT of NSFW/nsfl things too. When I come across it I defederate it. It would be a flood of things if I just blindly federated with everyone

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Just something of note, the program has options to not federate NSFW content in its settings, so it'll ignore communities and instances marked as such.

[–] iso@lemy.lol 2 points 1 month ago

I still think it will not explode bandwidth and storage, but I can't argue because I don't have any valid evidence :)

The reason I say this is that communities take up a few bytes in the database and if there is no activity (post/comment), they don't use any bandwidth either.

However, I can't say anything about the organic /all tab argument. It's a matter of preference. Kind of funny one.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's why it's really important to have an option to share your own instance communities without receiving ones from others. Allows others to know of you, while not taking on more data load than you have to.