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1 year agoOh how do you do that auto federation thing?
Oh how do you do that auto federation thing?
The problem is that federation doesn’t work very well just yet. I see different subscriber stats based on which instance I view from. It’s very confusing for a new user.
It doesn’t help that there are people trying to cybersquat on communities. I see a lot of mods create 20 new communities with no content. That’s not helping anyone.
Maybe give it a while? Sometimes it takes a while to populate across servers.
The best chance of succeeding is federation across both. The user base on both is already small, there’s no need for this us-vs-them mentality.
But any site which restricts sign ups is going to turn off 50% of the people who show up.
Ideally yes, but for a more niche community, federation is slower and posts don’t get pushed through. I can see a lot of confusion when someone creates a niche sub because they thought it didn’t exist, when in reality it does, and they were just the first to search for it from their server.