Anyone else getting influx of 36 subscribers when creating a community?
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 !thefinals@lemm.ee community. Are these bots?
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.
I thought having one person on any community of an instance is enough to federate with all the communities there...
Nope. Every individual community must have a sub to be pulled in remotely.
Yes, it’s the bots that subscribe to federate the communities.
