I did a search from shitjustworks for “reddit die” and did not find https://lemmy.world/c/watchredditdie so I made https://sh.itjust.works/c/watchredditdie (unnecessarily). This should really not happen. When someone makes a community there should be a “ping” sent out to notify all other federated instances.

And from what I know, if I post to !sh.itjust.works/c/watchredditdie only users on sh.itjust.works will see the posts until other people from other instances randomly come across it somehow and subscribe? This really needs to be improved.

  • @Anon518OP
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    35 months ago

    Isn’t it mostly text? Why would that be a heavy burden? Isn’t there an option to disable local hosting of images & videos?

    • Rentlar
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      55 months ago

      Lemmy was able to be hosted on 1GB RAM machines, which may still work but less likely to be a good experience if you have too many instances in the federation queue even with just text. With images on, the biggest problem is the storage needs grew a lot.

      Sharing/publishing lists of communities on a server to allow for automated subscribing seems like a good interim measure.