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Lemmy needs better integration/federation. Too much content is hidden. A community on the biggest instance was not visible to me on another large instance. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/fediverse
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I did a search from shitjustworks for "reddit die" and did not find https://lemmy.world/c/watchredditdie so I made https://sh.itjust.works/c/watchredditdie (unnecessarily). This should really not happen. When someone makes a community there should be a "ping" sent out to notify all other federated instances.

And from what I know, if I post to !sh.itjust.works/c/watchredditdie only users on sh.itjust.works will see the posts until other people from other instances randomly come across it somehow and subscribe? This really needs to be improved.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The community you're trying to subscribe to only has one post, and I believe that post may predate your instance spinning up.

It's not really a good example of federation on Lemmy, because it doesn't have content to federate.

Even your ping idea wouldn't have worked here

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Even your ping idea wouldn’t have worked here

Why not? When the person created the sub it would have sent out a ping to all federated instances, and thus when any account on a federated instance searches the keyword they would find that sub. IE: each instance would have a list of subs of all other federated instances. Like a sitemap.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

As I said, I think the only post in the community you were looking at was made before your instance was up and running and able to be pinged

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why not? When the person created the sub it would have sent out a ping to all federated instances

No it wouldn't? Unless you mean that's what you think it should do?

Anyway, there are tools to do this manually if you make a new community and want it to appear it popular all feeds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

No it wouldn’t? Unless you mean that’s what you think it should do?

Yes, and it seems that the devs have this in mind on their to-do list.