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do I need to manually add all instances that I want future members of my instance to be able to subscribe to ? (lemmyfly.org)

submitted 1 year ago by majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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seems not scaleable. I thought you could subscribe at one instance, then browse communities from all instances and read and comment no matter if your instance has it in their Allowed list or not ? (apart from the ones in Blocked)

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[–] oranki@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm also thinking of setting up a server (would host a public Synapse instance and maybe Mastodon too), and thought about this same issue.

Perhaps a bot that just goes through a list of known instances and just subscribes to communities would do it? Might be a bit heavy though. Not sure how much load Lemmy federation puts on the server.

[–] majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A user subscribes to a community, not the instance. I’ve emptied the Allowed list and now the All communities list is growing as users search for community-urls on other servers.

On browse.feddit.de you can find a list of all communities together, don’t know hoe they do that

[–] oranki@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, you are correct. I was however talking about how to make it convenient for new users unfamiliar to the Lemmy system to find communities to subscribe to. The point was to get the built-in search to show as much communities as possible.

The current system is not convenient or clear for the average person at all. Not complaining or anything, but that's just a fact. I got started two days ago, and the number of "how to find communities" posts in that time is quite high. Took me the first day too.

[–] majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org 1 points 1 year ago

agree, there is quite a learning curve. I still don't get why I can't see comments to my post on a different server. But when I log in on another server thats also reading from that community I see the comments there