Disabled the community seeder
Disabled the community seeder
It was lagging the instance quite a bit, and really isn't necessary given the amount of active users we have now and the communities already federated in.
If you want to see new communities that might not be federated yet though, per usual feel free go to https://lemmyverse.net or [email protected]
I’m trying to understand more about how lemmy works, would you mind explaining what a community feeder is? (And, unrelated, if you have spare time, what federation actually means… is it a two way street or only one way?)
As well, this image explains it well.
By default new communities don't federate in automatically, they have to be pulled manually by a user. Or in the case of the community seeder bot, it uses javascript to jerry rig a bot that pulls the top communities across a bunch of the top the instances. Community discovery by default in lemmy is kinda hot garbage right now. I am hopeful for it to improve though.
https://fediprimer.org/ is a good site that explains in detail about federation