All participating instances have a bot that subscribes to participating communities from the other instances. This makes it so a community is federated over to all participating instances.

Example: You create !ask_kemmy@lemmy.com and around 70 bots from other instances then subscribe to it. Now users on those 70 other instances sees the community and subscribes themselves. The bots see this and they unsubscribe because their work is done.

@iso@lemy.lol might be the one to notify here

Quite unfortunate, lemmy-federate is an amazing tool.

I will look into this. Thanks!

Well. You probably want some pictures. For a site icon, for your pfp etc. which necessitates setting up the image server. You can quite easily stop your server from caching external images, as I’ve just done, so only your local images are stored. I don’t know about disallowing user uploaded images entirely. Maybe you can set an upload limit of 0 or smth?

I just set up our S3 image storage, which costs us 6.27€ pr. TB. (with Hetzner)

Actually, how do you backup your images? I am bit unsure of what to do here, since the objects aren’t really managed by me.

I mean, 1.2TB isn’t that much in terms of price, but it’s still a heck of a lot. I’m gonna look into proxying, and disabling the caching. Thanks!

Yup. This is my thought process exactly. One gigabyte, for 20 days of being properly online, is not much. My cost is around 6€ pr. month pr. terabyte (pretty nice), but I have no idea how my usage will grow.

The what?

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.

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!

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…

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.

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.

Ty!

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.

What? Nah, we da’ sanest people around.

Thank you! Didn’t know frontends supported this.

We are not a pr team? We are not advertising the game? We are launching a new instance for indie game communities.