It works well and it feels nice to get a community active.
There are some hiccups in the instances because of the hug of death we're giving which I'd expect they recover in a few days. In the meantime, i'll just keep finding more comunities to subscribe with the comunity browser. I just wish there was something similar for kbin communities (magazines I believe they're called) so I could subscribe to them too.
in the search tool of your instance enter [email protected] and it will find it and start federating it.
That's true and I added it later by an edit in my original post which appears not to have synchronized to Beehaw yet. I wholeheartedly agree with the final paragraph of that post.
(Some) Lemmy devs seem to have political ideologies that are within the "tankie" settings. That's mostly it. Some people express they feel uncomfortable about it. Such devs hold an instance separate from the flagship instance (lemmygrad.ml), which in my opinion is not bad at all, I think it's better they keep them to themselves giving an option to other instances to block it. They're not trying to shove tankies ideas down anyones throats or anything.
It will definitely is a hard to find hard to grow. So far federation and different instances might make redundant communities, but I think these will naturally tend to merge/go inactive in time.
This browser of communities https://browse.feddit.de/ is a godsend to find communities I may like. Though it's all centered in Lemmy and I want a similar tool for kbin (or this browser to add kbin instances communities).
not exactly what you're looking for, but check out this comunity browser https://browse.feddit.de/