I've consciously not subscribed to this as it messes up the organic /all tab of the instance and as other said it would explode our storage and bandwidth.
this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2024
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I see, that makes sense. It does kind of suck though since it means that it's harder to get communities here seeded elsewhere so they can be discovered and gain users. Getting communities here isn't as big a deal , it's getting your communities pushed out there that's the issue.
Maybe someone could talk to the maintainers about including a mode that doesn't push external communities to our instance but still allows for other instances to subscribe to communities on our instance.
Just a note from a small/personal instance owner to potential others, this will explode your bandwidth and storage usage.
That's a good point, would recommend if doing it to keep the auto-add option off since that can help reduce the burden somewhat. If it's automatically fetching and adding instances that can make the issue that much worse.