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Other than creating content and interactions, one thing I've been trying to do is make sure to search up and federate any cool new remote communities I come across, even if they're not something I care to subscribe to myself.
In theory that makes it slightly easier for other people joining my instance to find things when they search, because I feel like the weird "search and get no results but then wait 15 seconds and it'll change to pull results" behaviour is a major source of confusion for new people atm.
How do you "federate" a community, I like this idea and would like to help, but I don't know how! :-)
Search for the community's url in your instances' search.
Oh right, as simple as that? Nice one, thank you :-)
@neblem Really? So you don't need to actually do a follow like you would in the Microblogging apps to federate?
Interesting. Presumably it must do some kind of subscribe/follow in the background?
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