I’ve recently found it beneficial to have a home lemmy instance that does not have a lot of users. This allows me to access content that has been defederated. But, as many have said, using the communities and creating content for them is like oxygen, and we need oxygen for survival.

So if I’m on a very small instance, but want to create a community that gets users, it makes sense to have that community on one of the larger instances. But how would one go about doing that from a smaller instance? Would I create the community from the larger instance and then interact with it from the smaller one? Or is that bad practice?

Any thoughts would be helpful.

  • godless@latte.isnot.coffee
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    1 year ago

    Create an account with a larger instance (A), create a community, make a post inside. Comment with your smaller instance account (B) to that post, then you have a “make mod” button in the comment options from your A account. Afterwards you can leave the mod team (or stay on just in case of issues with the small instance).

    No idea if it’s considered bad practice, but it’s exactly what I’m doing.