I did a search from shitjustworks for “reddit die” and did not find https://lemmy.world/c/watchredditdie so I made https://sh.itjust.works/c/watchredditdie (unnecessarily). This should really not happen. When someone makes a community there should be a “ping” sent out to notify all other federated instances.

And from what I know, if I post to !sh.itjust.works/c/watchredditdie only users on sh.itjust.works will see the posts until other people from other instances randomly come across it somehow and subscribe? This really needs to be improved.

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    The community you’re trying to subscribe to only has one post, and I believe that post may predate your instance spinning up.

    It’s not really a good example of federation on Lemmy, because it doesn’t have content to federate.

    Even your ping idea wouldn’t have worked here

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      9 months ago

      Even your ping idea wouldn’t have worked here

      Why not? When the person created the sub it would have sent out a ping to all federated instances, and thus when any account on a federated instance searches the keyword they would find that sub. IE: each instance would have a list of subs of all other federated instances. Like a sitemap.

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        9 months ago

        As I said, I think the only post in the community you were looking at was made before your instance was up and running and able to be pinged

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        Why not? When the person created the sub it would have sent out a ping to all federated instances

        No it wouldn’t? Unless you mean that’s what you think it should do?

        Anyway, there are tools to do this manually if you make a new community and want it to appear it popular all feeds.

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          No it wouldn’t? Unless you mean that’s what you think it should do?

          Yes, and it seems that the devs have this in mind on their to-do list.