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] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Isn’t that intentional though? I don’t believe many instances, especially the small ones, can afford to federate every community. Sure, sometimes it can be a bit annoying but you can always check on lemmyverse.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It should show up in community search even if they're not constantly pulling down every single post of those communities

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

And just the instance metadata is tiny

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Fair enough

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

As a middle-ground, I think it's enough to only sync the community name and user count and maybe the description. More isn't shown in the search anyway and those 3 data points shouldn't take too much storage.

Syncing name solves the problem of communities not showing up. The problem with only being shown posts in a community someone on the instance has already subscribed to is more difficult, as you wrote.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Descriptions can be of arbitrary length. Date and time of the most recent activity might be more realistic and useful.