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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[–] Anon518@sh.itjust.works -2 points 9 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.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 9 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

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 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.

[–] Anon518@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 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.