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?

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    31·
    1 day 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.

    • Clot@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

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