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New instance, no magazines. Now what? (feddit.online)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I started a new KBIN instance. It has one magazine, random, because I created it. Anyone coming here will find no interesting magazines. It will be boring.

How do I find interesting magazines on other instances? Say, I want to find a magazine about Linux, somewhere on another KBIN or Lemmy server and add it here. If I search in the magazine search, no magazines show up. If I search using the topmost global search, no magazines show up.

How does a new instance get the list of magazines that are available from the other KBIN and Lemmy instances without visiting each one and creating a list to use for a full name search?

Or is my instance just broken?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like federation does not work for you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No this is how federation works. There's no way for a new instance to know about any other instance or community. A user has to search for communities to notify the instance of external instances/communities. Once it knows about them, they'll show up in the community list