I just noticed that the two communities I moderate on SDF seem to have stopped being updated when I view them from lemmy.ml’s page:

This doesn’t seem to concern other SDF communities, e.g. funhole@lemmy.sdf.org.

Anybody knows what the problem might be?

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    I don’t know what’s going on, but I do know that if no lemmy.ml users are currently joined in those groups then they won’t update. I don’t think any of us were joined, though I don’t know for sure. I joined them just now; let me know what happens.

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      5·
      9 months ago

      I do know that if no lemmy.ml users are currently joined in those groups then they won’t update

      Oh wow that’s super weird. I didn’t know that.

      Your joining seems to have triggered the update.

      Good to know, this. Thanks!

        • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
          2·
          9 months ago

          Really useful. Thanks!

          I’m a bit confused by what that tool says though:

          By default, communities on Lemmy/Mbin are not federated due to the inherent limitations of ActivityPub.

          When you create a new community, it will only be available to your instance. To make it accessible to other instances, at least one user from each remote instance must follow it.

          This tool automates this process by following your community from all remote instances until it gains at least one real-user follower.

          And yet when I go to any instance’s webpage and look for any community - even a brand new one - I find it. So is the tool referring to something else?

          • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            An instance only gets content from other instances coms if someone follows.

            You can search com@instance from any instance and see any com.

            Federation is passive, users are active.

            • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
              2·
              9 months ago

              Ah right gotcha. So like if someone is on an instance where nobody follows a foreign community and browses All, they won’t see a new post from that community.

              Makes sense.

              Thanks!