Skavau@piefed.social to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agoPiefed monthly user activity has increased by nearly 500 in 3 days.piefed.fediverse.observerexternal-linkmessage-square110fedilinkarrow-up1268arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1267arrow-down1external-linkPiefed monthly user activity has increased by nearly 500 in 3 days.piefed.fediverse.observerSkavau@piefed.social to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agomessage-square110fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSkavau@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·15 hours agoThe search menu on a piefed instance isn’t going to find and federate new communities. It has never worked like that.
minus-squareBB84@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·14 hours agoThat’s what I thought. Thanks for confirming.
minus-squareSkavau@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-214 hours agoSo there’s an “Add remote community” button that you use to individually federate comms. You may only see this logged in. Or if you manually put in the url as it would be seen from that piefed instance, it will federate that way. It won’t populate the added communities with new content AFTER federation though until they have a local subscriber.
The search menu on a piefed instance isn’t going to find and federate new communities. It has never worked like that.
That’s what I thought. Thanks for confirming.
So there’s an “Add remote community” button that you use to individually federate comms. You may only see this logged in.
Or if you manually put in the url as it would be seen from that piefed instance, it will federate that way.
It won’t populate the added communities with new content AFTER federation though until they have a local subscriber.