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How can mbin/kbin users subscribe or even just reach a lemmy community? (fedia.io)

submitted 8 months ago by ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io to c/fedia@fedia.io

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I’m trying to access this community from fedia.io:

https://sopuli.xyz/c/french

Searching for that URL or !french@sopuli.xyz yields nothing. If I manually visit this URL:

https://fedia.io/m/french@sopuli.xyz

I get a 404.

btw, this post would be better suited in

https://fedia.io/m/Mdev@kbin.run

but when I try to post there I get:

This page isn’t workingfedia.io is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500

Which makes this post herein relevant to the fedia magazine after all.

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[–] e-five@fedia.io 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Make sure to subscribe to communities you want. It's not just searching for it and loading it, but if there are no local subscribers it won't get updates (and the last subscriber unsubbing would put it in this situation).

This became a bit harder to tell ever since mbin switched to showing real subscriber numbers rather than local like kbin has. There is an active PR to try to address this issue so users are able to tell when data isn't coming in

[–] Hypx@fedia.io 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. That seems to resolve the issue. Though, for a lot of smaller communities, no one is going to subscribe to them here, effectively making them invisible here.

[–] e-five@fedia.io 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't completely disagree, hopefully the PR I linked, once complete, will make it a lot more obvious to people when this scenario occurs. I think from an instance owner perspective, they wouldn't want to constantly be paying the overhead on communities no one has an actual interest in viewing (edit: this isn't worded well, so forgive me, obviously people may want to view it but not have it show up in their sub feed, so perhaps another action item is a way to split subscription lists, which I think was already requested), as it has a very real financial cost to them. But I will keep this in mind, I meant to investigate how lemmy works (whether they also require a subscriber, I mean they do because this is how AP works but they might make a fake user or something, I never had a chance to look, but I'd be curious what tools they have to stop incoming messaging for when an instance owner wants to save bandwidth)