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Show warning message to mods if community is not federated yet#3757

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@Nutomic Nutomic commented Jan 14, 2026

I came across a comment mentioning that many new moderators dont know that they need to promote their community to different instances, in order to make it federate:

75% of small communities, if not higher, don’t use lemmy-federate to expand the visibility of their community. The user makes the community, broadcasts a few posts locally and then gets sad that no-one replies (because it can only be seen locally). Nor do they make use of !newcommunities@lemmy.world or !communitypromo@lemmy.ca to advertise.

So I had the idea of showing a warning message to the moderator if the community has no remote follows:Screenshot_20260114_120646

@Nutomic Nutomic force-pushed the community-not-federated-warning branch from f071d1c to 2e553d4 Compare January 14, 2026 11:07
You can also use the following: <br />-
https://lemmy-federate.com <br />-
https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities <br />-
https://communitypromo@lemmy.ca
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Any suggestions to improve the text? Also need to move it to translations and use proper variables.

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I think something like,

"Only local users can see this community. You can use lemmy-federate.com to make sure other servers can see it."

I'd rather not link specific servers and communities.

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Nutomic commented Jan 21, 2026

Updated: LemmyNet/lemmy-translations#234

@dessalines dessalines merged commit 8e60255 into main Jan 21, 2026
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@dessalines dessalines deleted the community-not-federated-warning branch January 21, 2026 20:36
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