Issues federating a new community (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Sibbo@sopuli.xyz to c/meta@sopuli.xyz

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I created the community aimusic. However it does not seem to federate to other instances.

Trying to search it from e.g. lemmy.world, mander.xyz or lemmy.dbzer0.com results in nothing. The pages just show errors. Also after a few attempts and using the search function from the respective instances yields nothing.

Did this happen with any other communities recently? Is this temporary and will resolve itself within the next days, or is there some deeper issue?

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[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

Instances do not ingest all content on all other instances.

That would result in every server having to store every post by every user on the entire fediverse, even from other activitypub platforms. This is not efficient.

Instead, servers only ingest content that at least one user has subscribed to, and therefore explicitly requested.

This obviously hurts discoverability, which is why lemmy-federate.com exists.

[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Wasn't it that if you just open the link where the community should be on a different instance, then lemmy would look it up in the background and the next try would succeed?

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This only works while logged in, only when using search, and only federates the community as it is at that point in time, without vote counts and comments.

Unless you actually subscribe, it will not continue to sync.

[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

I see, then I would have needed to log in.

[-] Skelectus@suppo.fi 3 points 2 months ago

Why don't you make a post to !newcommunities@lemmy.world

Maybe a few foreign instance users will subscribe, and therefore federate the content to their instances.

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