I just noticed that the two communities I moderate on SDF seem to have stopped being updated when I view them from lemmy.ml’s page:

This doesn’t seem to concern other SDF communities, e.g. funhole@lemmy.sdf.org.

Anybody knows what the problem might be?

  • ExtremeDullardOP
    5·
    2 days ago

    I do know that if no lemmy.ml users are currently joined in those groups then they won’t update

    Oh wow that’s super weird. I didn’t know that.

    Your joining seems to have triggered the update.

    Good to know, this. Thanks!

      • ExtremeDullardOP
        3·
        1 day ago

        Really useful. Thanks!

        I’m a bit confused by what that tool says though:

        By default, communities on Lemmy/Mbin are not federated due to the inherent limitations of ActivityPub.

        When you create a new community, it will only be available to your instance. To make it accessible to other instances, at least one user from each remote instance must follow it.

        This tool automates this process by following your community from all remote instances until it gains at least one real-user follower.

        And yet when I go to any instance’s webpage and look for any community - even a brand new one - I find it. So is the tool referring to something else?

        • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          An instance only gets content from other instances coms if someone follows.

          You can search com@instance from any instance and see any com.

          Federation is passive, users are active.

          • ExtremeDullardOP
            3·
            19 hours ago

            Ah right gotcha. So like if someone is on an instance where nobody follows a foreign community and browses All, they won’t see a new post from that community.

            Makes sense.

            Thanks!