They would be more than free to run their own furry community. There's no reason we would have to merge into one single furry community.
We can have /c/furry and /c/furries or whatever. But they're more than welcome to set up their own more sanitized community.
Federation happens automatically when a user types the remote community into their instance's search page.
Try putting this into your instance's search page, including the exclamation mark: !transformation@pawb.social
It might take a couple of seconds or require a page refresh, but it should then show up no-probs. If no one on your instance does this, you will never be able to see that content on your instance.
Yes, but there's something you can do. Create a secondary "utility user" called @discovery or whatever you want. And use that user to subscribe to any even remotely popular remote communities.
Not sure if you're an admin or a mod here, but even if you're not, you can help out this instance a lot with this userscript.
(If you're not a mod, admin or know about userscripts, feel free to ignore this. This is to automate your server fetching remote communities and making them available to all users)
In the upper right click on the "home" button and write ttrgp.network as your home instance.
Now open every community you think your users will enjoy in a separate tab. I do control+click, click, click, click... and maybe open 50 or so.
What will happen is the following:
You will likely get a 404 not found error on the new tab you opened because your server doesn't know about that community yet
The script automatically redirects you from that 404 page to the search page
Your server will immediately fetch the remote community and make it discoverable
In the future it's likely that the whole discovery process will be automated. The lemmy software itself was not prepared for such an explosive growth and is lacking some features, but right now we have to roll with the punches because it's the best non-proprietary alternative out there (together with Kbin, which also interoperates with lemmy). Any other alternatives either isolate (eg. a simple forum) or are also owned and run by some for-profit company where you run the risk of digg/reddit stuff happening ago.
Right now this instance is owned by the moderators of your reddit community and you know no one can come in and ruin stuff, even if it takes some time to rebuild the community.
Tip: switch your default ordering from “Active” to “Hot”. I feel it gives better results.
Edit: Also worth mentioning. If you see a remote community you really don't like but don't want to block the remote instance entirely, an instance admin can simply click on the "remove" button of the remote community. Generally speaking it's probably best to give your users access to all or most remote content which could include NSFW, but if you really don't want to have a certain remote community appear on your list of remote communities, you can remove it (not purge, just remove) and it won't show up anywhere.
Yes. I was worried remote users would have a hard time discovering our communities. Furthermore, I have the same problem when trying to populate our instance with remote communities in that I have to manually copy and pasting instead of simply being able to click on a link. So I thought I might as well make it easy for everyone who wants to subscribe to us.
However servers are not isolated. You can use one single account to participate in communities on any server.
That is how I'm able to write this comment from a completely different server.
You have three different timelines:
Subscribed (communities you're subscribed to, whether on your account's server (local) or on other servers (remote).
Local (only posts on local communities)
All (all posts from communities your server knows to exist)
Tip: switch your default ordering from "Active" to "Hot". I feel it gives better results.
The only tricky part to getting started, especially at a very new instance like ttrpg.network is community discovery. Your server won't know what communities exist out there unless a user searches for them.
You can do this by going to https://lemmyverse.net/communities and following any communities you like!
To do so go to the search page (magnifying glass) and copy/past or type the name of a remote community. For example say you want to subscribe to !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world. Simply copy paste that in the search box (including the exclamation mark). It might take a couple of seconds or require a refresh, but your server (ttrpg.network) will discover this new community and make it available to all other users on your server. You can also click on it and in the sidebar click on the "subscribe" button to join it like you'd join a subreddit.
Ah yes, they show up now. Regarding setting the language to English, this is not necessary if the creator of the community selects "Undetermined" language in the community settings. It is a bug, but it can be circumvented by having communities allow Undetermined language.
There's also two other comments from lemmy.world users. I suspect both things are related.
The community has "undetermined" language disabled. That's why those comments don't show up and why you can't reply to terrorbite unless you set your comment's language to English
I'm not familiar with locally run text analysis models, but there should be a way to analyze comments and flag them based on certain topics.
This is a far more complicated approach but I suspect it could be ultimately necessary.
Say you've got a user who's been shilling a certain product regularly. They've been active 24/7 without seemingly sleeping and/or share the same IP, ISP or IP geolocation as other users with a similar pattern. You should be able to have a confidence metric that this user is involved in an astroturfing campaign. (Although you won't and should not get IP addresses for remote users).
Slightly offtopic but a funny thought: I wonder if there's a way to engage with these bots, ask them something that an AI would respond to in a flawed manner and detect them based on their replies or lack of replies.
Edit: I just remembered that I read that even if not displayed in the UI, upvotes are public because they correspond to favorites on Mastodon. It should be much easier to find a correlation of certain accounts consistently upvoting or downvoting certain posts
DbZ, how feasible is it to have some sort of analysis tools to detect bots regardless of their home instance.
Right now they are proliferating in specific instances but those are easier to block. More concerning is the use of bots via established instances.
Since we can see the user profiles of even remote users, how likely is it that we can detect bots accounts by running some sort of analysis? The benefit here is that it should be able to detect even human-run astroturfing accounts.
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Why wouldn't it? I can access it from my Yiffit instance.
Edit: Can you load this link while being logged in to lemmynsfw? https://lemmynsfw.com/search/q/!furryws%40pawb.social/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1
You might be right but I don't know why it doesn't show up. Neither instance blocks each other. Maybe it shows up if you're logged in though.