I tried to browse my community from other instances, but got 404: Couldnt find community error. What do I need to do to have said community visible from other instances?
I tried to browse my community from other instances, but got 404: Couldnt find community error. What do I need to do to have said community visible from other instances?
Hey neighbour(Greek here)!
The way federation works, is that although federation is enabled the actual communities are not automatically broadcasted to other instances. If you want your newly created community to be visible to other instances you have to manually add it there by following these steps:
/communities
in that instanceEnter
. There will be no results but don’t worry, it worked.You should now be able to see the community there.
Unfortunately each community has to be manually indexes in every instance but I think
lemmy.directory
is trying to index everything so people can find stuff easier, in there.Thanks neighbour :)
To add to this, new posts, comments and votes are only actively pulled in as soon as they’re up if at least 1 person on the instance is subscribed.
Each instance’s All feed is a pretty good snapshot of what the users there are subscribed to because of this :P
Or you could be a madlad like Https://lemmy.directory and have a bot that subscribes to literally every sub it can find