I really like the Lemmy Community Browser at browse.feddit.de for locating communities across instances.

When I first stood up my instance, I guess it was crawled and my community showed up there. Awesome!

I’ve since rebuilt on a new domain and federated again, and my old instance dropped off (as expected). However, a day or so later, my new instance still isn’t showing up there. The new instance is known to join-lemmy.org and fediverse.observer, so it is discoverable.

I’m curious if anyone knows how often it updates and if that tool is based on a project I can clone to spin up another instance. I’m interested in both running a replica of it to act as another entry point as well as using it as a base to develop some quality of life enhancements. e.g. a click to subscribe option that ties into your home instance and does the initial search and subscribe steps.

  • Admiral PatrickOPEnglish
    3•11 months ago

    and the more instances link to yours, the more likely it will be crawled, in case other instances drop out.

    I’ve got a lot of peers in my instances list (lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, feddit.de are the largest peers), and I’ve clicked into the /instances page of many of them; they all show my domain as a peer, so I believe I’m good there.

    but right now it has low prio for me as i broke my hand and try to stay away from the keyboard

    Well, I definitely thank you for powering through to answer my dumb questions, and I do appreciate your time.

        • Admiral PatrickOPEnglish
          2•11 months ago

          There it is!

          Thanks for checking back.

          I want to say the blame lies 100% with me on this one.

          When i moved over to the new domain, I forgot to disable my default WAF policy for robots.txt which is set to disallow all. Realized that late yesterday evening and turned that rule off in my load balancer.