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Spread the Load! Join other Instances! (loot.buckodr.ink)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yes I know they're getting DDoSed, I'm just messing around

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The main issue is that Lemmy instances, by default, only know about their local communities and remote communities that the users of that server have deliberately subscribed to. Some smaller instances are running federation helpers which are bots that search for remote communities to fix this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Thanks for clarifying. Makes sense

Good to learn about some of the piping underneath