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Federation issues with other instances (pawb.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've noticed that communities from sopuli.xyz aren't showing up in the search. Is Pawb.Social having issues federating with that instance? Or is it just that the instance might be overloaded?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Basically, from what I've gathered, if you're the first user to try and talk with that community/instance from this one, you need to do an external search, i.e. [email protected]

Give it about 30 seconds to a minute for the servers to link up, and our instance will grab that community's info and their top 20 posts to populate. Then you can just search it by its community name and it'll show up to subscribe. Once you sub to it, it'll formally federate and pawb.social will start downloading posts from that community regularly.

It'll be up to us early users to build the connections for later folks to use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Wow, that makes so much more sense. It would be nice if the UI made that behavior clear, as just returning 404 errors generally means "this does not exist", not "I might need to take a second to look for this".