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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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[–] 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)