I am seeing a lot of local communities in the search tab which are recently created and have 0 post but 36 subscribers. Same happened with my !thefinals@lemm.ee community. Are these bots?
I am seeing a lot of local communities in the search tab which are recently created and have 0 post but 36 subscribers. Same happened with my !thefinals@lemm.ee community. Are these bots?
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Fizz@lemmy.nz · 33 pts · 1y
Instances need to have 1 person subscribe to a community to have those posts federate to their instance. Its likely that some Instances are running bots that subscribe to an instance so its visible for their users.
clot27@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
I thought having one person on any community of an instance is enough to federate with all the communities there...
vaguerant@fedia.io · 10 pts · 1y
Nope. Every individual community must have a sub to be pulled in remotely.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 1y
Yes, it’s the bots that subscribe to federate the communities.
neme@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y