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Does my instance federate with communities, or does my user? (redlemmy.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by stinky@redlemmy.com to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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General question about Lemmy:

If I as an instance owner search & subscribe to another instance's community, I get "federated" with that community. Does that mean my instance is, or my user is?

Second question:

If I want users at my instance to see posts from communities on other instances, is there a way for me to pull those posts in to my instance? Or, how do I get my users to see other communities' content?

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[–] fishcharlie@eventfrontier.com 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Your instance is the one that federates. However it starts with a user subscribing to that content. Your instance won’t federate normally without user interaction.

Normally the solution for the second part is relays. But that isn’t something Lemmy supports currently. This issue is very common with smaller instances. It isn’t as big of a deal with bigger instances since users are more likely to have subscribed to more communities that will automatically be federated to your instance. You could experiment with creating a user and subscribing to a bunch of communities so they get federated to your instance.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You could experiment with creating a user and subscribing to a bunch of communities

Would this work with my current user? I'm the admin

[–] fishcharlie@eventfrontier.com 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. It just will fill your feed with a bunch of things you might not care about. But admin vs non admin doesn’t matter in the context of what I said.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 1 points 13 hours ago

Got it, thanks