I edited all my comments to this quote from Aaron Swartz:

"We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that’s out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerrilla Open Access."

It seemed appropriate. I'm sad to see the way that reddit has gone, but not surprised. I believe that if Aaron were still around, he'd be leading the charge against whats happening at reddit.

Is there any way to automate community discovery across lemmy instances?

I'm just getting my lemmy community going and I'm seeing super weird behavior when I'm trying to add communities or connect via federation.

So I got this instance up yesterday and I didn't (still don't) really understand federation.

Does any one have a tutorial or an explainer I could tuck into that can help me figure out how to effectively federate/ connect to other lemmy instances?

For example, I connected to !memes[email protected]. It appears to now be 'federated', in that when I look at 'all communities' on [email protected] , then I see posts. Whats weird though, is that they are all 18 hours behind, and have no activity.

I really want to support the growth of the lemmy verse. I think the best way to do this is with unique, niche focused federated instances for 'groups' of specific interests. wallstreets.bet is how I thought I could support that. But I'm struggling with the federation aspect and I'm not sure its working correctly.