Piefed communities can now be used with Lemmy-federate
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For people who don’t know, https://lemmy-federate.com/ is a tool that allows Lemmy instances to know about new communities created, avoiding the “this community does not exist” issue when trying to look up a community nobody on your instance subscribed to.
Piefed-side, Piefed instances monitor !newcommunities@lemmy.world to prefetch new communities on a daily basis.
It’s nice to see that now both types of communities can be fetched by both types of instances!
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For people who don’t know, https://lemmy-federate.com/ is a tool that allows Lemmy instances to know about new communities created, avoiding the “this community does not exist” issue when trying to look up a community nobody on your instance subscribed to.
Piefed-side, Piefed instances monitor !newcommunities@lemmy.world to prefetch new communities on a daily basis.
It’s nice to see that now both types of communities can be fetched by both types of instances!
iirc Wasn’t this always the case? I think the dev some time ago somehow made the code generic enough to work on all software even mbin.
I could be misremembering, though
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iirc Wasn’t this always the case? I think the dev some time ago somehow made the code generic enough to work on all software even mbin.
I could be misremembering, though
It’s worked with piefed for a while now, but it wasn’t working with piefed.social specifically. Turns out the problem was DNS.
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It’s worked with piefed for a while now, but it wasn’t working with piefed.social specifically. Turns out the problem was DNS.
Good to know, thanks!
Since you’re here could I ask about the fetching from !newcommunities@lemmy.world? It’s an interesting feature but it assumes LW will always be here, and moreso that specific community will exist. Is there a way to change the community it fetches from, for future proof?
I don’t see LW going any time soon. But I thought the exact same about lemm.ee and was proven wrong, which is why I’m asking. It also assumes that instance is federated with LW, which may not always be the case (as an edge case)
