That now means that the basic tier look kinda poor on a storage PoV, worth it for the BYO domain though.

Can I have an ELi5?

Yeh, it’s all the network effect. Where people go will, generally be where they continue to go.

That’s why threads was dangerous (and may still be) to and more grassroots federated options

What is the likelihood that you could set up a server to bridge the two protocols?

Disintegrate would be even better as it prevents resurrection, it’s quite a high level spell slot though.

The BBC (British Broadcasting Company) has its own masterdon server it is experimenting with: https://social.bbc/about

It’s cool they have their own top level domain, they should use it more!

Possibly moderation bots too.

That’s still instance dependant - I’m on a small instance and my all feed isn’t that good because there aren’t many others subscribing to niche communities etc.

I have updated the post with that format of link @sbrl@fedia.io you should be able to use them all now if ShittyKopper is correct.

This list was made by someone else and copied, I think I understand why they did it that way though - you can’t format those links nicely, the following doesn’t work: * [Imaginary Kanto](!imaginarykanto@lemm.ee) Looking like this (tries to link to a post or something?:

• Imaginary Kanto

How new is new? Most of these have been around for two months or so now.

A bit late - but here is the current list of imaginary communities:

• !imaginarycathedrals@lemm.ee
• !imaginarycosmere@sffa.community
• !imaginarydegradation@lemm.ee
• !imaginarydieselpunk@lemm.ee
• !imaginarykanto@lemm.ee
• !imaginarylandscapes@lemmy.world
• !imaginarymerfolk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
• !imaginaryportals@lemm.ee
• !imaginarysteampunk@lemm.ee
• !imaginarywarhammer@lemmy.world
• !imaginarywastelands@lemm.ee
• !imaginarywitches@lemmy.dbzer0.com
• !imaginarytrains@lemm.ee

There is also !digitalart@lemmy.world and there are a few imaginary network communities starting up.

I was going to comment that I keep seeing you around. 👋

I have seen this happen entirely contained on a single instance (community and my account on the same instance) I don’t have bots blocked.

So I suspect something is funky somewhere, will try to see how it displays in other apps(and kbin etc later)

I think they were just suggesting that it should be discussed in the app specific community as they thought it was an app issue not a federation issue.

I’m mostly in the Cosmere communities, I need to read more books before I can contribute elsewhere!

If it’s just for lurking, look for a small one to help spread the load.

Try the one I’m on if your into sci-fi or fantasy

What instance is the hfy community on? I can’t find one with any posts?

I think a lot of the imaginary communities were on one of the .ml instances so are currently in suspended animation. That domain shutdown was really badly timed…

Otherwise, it’s the standard problem that only a small % actually post and Lemmy is much smaller. I do think that a better/fixed hot algorithm would help with post discoverability for smaller communities though.

( I mod a niche imaginary community for the Cosmere book series(es))