I created a new community on PieFed ( !action_movies@piefed.social ) and tried using https://lemmy-federate.com/ to get federated across other instances, but get an “instance is not registered” error.

Apparently, there are… issues?
https://lemmy.ca/post/45479147

So wondering about other ways to get federated.

  1. Can I do it myself, at least for the one other instance where I have an account (lemmy.ca)?
    To me, at the moment it seems a bit ‘chicken and egg’. I can’t see it on lemmy.ca, so I can’t subscribe to it from lemmy.ca. And lemmy.ca won’t federate it until I subscribe to it. I must have it wrong.

  2. Promo communities: I know about those, but I don’t want to use them just yet. This is a “soft launch” until I get more familiar with having a community and get some more content into it.

  3. Other ways?

Thanks.

  • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zipEnglish
    31·
    14 days ago

    The vast bulk of users are concentrated in a handful of places.

    It’s not that clear. When I would manually federate a community using alts, I would still use around 15 alts to make sure to cover at least the most active instances: https://piefed.social/post/822677

    But just doing a post in !newcommunities@lemmy.world is way easier, people will do your work for you then.

    A potential issue is that the first joiner on an instance sees that the community doesn’t exist, or is empty, so doesn’t subscribe, and the other new joiners do the same, so in the end nobody subscribes. I’ve had situation where my account was the only subscriber on a community for quite a while (people probably liked the content, but just added it to a feed rather than subscribing)

    FYI @klu9@piefed.social , there is an issue open for this: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/761