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 [email protected] community. Are these bots?

  • @[email protected]
    33•6 months ago

    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.

    • ClotOPEnglish
      5•6 months ago

      I thought having one person on any community of an instance is enough to federate with all the communities there…

      • vaguerant
        10•6 months ago

        Nope. Every individual community must have a sub to be pulled in remotely.