I’m seeing a lot less communities on this instance when I look at “All”. Are we blocked from several instances, limiting what we can see?

  • freeskier@centennialstate.socialMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There may be some instances that manually defederated during the whole bot situation. I know there was a tool someone made that automatically updates the defederated list, but I already verified we were off that naughty list. So, it would only be instances that manually defederated that we may still be blocked on. In that case we’d have to message the instance owners and ask to be removed from the list.

    I’m not sure I’m seeing any less communities though, could just be general federation issues. Any specific instances/communities you think are missing?

    • richie510@centennialstate.socialOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I finally counted how many communities show up on one page. it is 50. So I only see 54 communities in total when I look at “All” communities from this instance. On lemmy.world there are more than 500 communites that show up in “All” for me (i got tired of clicking after 10 pages)

      The list of communities on the first page on lemmy.world and centennialstate.social are pretty similar. Just for a point of reference, I went to the 5th page on lemmy.world and chose a random community: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

      That community is not showing up for me on this instance.

      another random one: https://lemmy.world/c/humor does not show up in the list of communities for All on this instance.

      @[email protected] Thank you!

      • freeskier@centennialstate.socialMEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Ah, I understand now. At least 1 person on this instance has to be subscribed to the community on another instance for it to federate and show up here. All the communities that show up in “All” on this instance are ones that have been subscribed to by at least 1 user on this instance. It is one of the downsides of federation on a small instance, you don’t have a very good “All” to see popular content form communities you aren’t subscribed to.

        There are some tools out there that will force federation with all communities, but the problem with that is it blows up storage requirements.