• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Doing it in a federated way.

    Specifically, when you tell your instance about another one, it should at least register the existence of every community on the other instance. Right now indexing is community-by-community from what I hear and that sucks.

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      1 year ago

      I can completely understand why that wouldn’t be, it would put a big strain on any server with a large community count.

      I think the top 25-100 communities could be reasonable, though. This could also be accomplished with a bot either managed by an instance interested in pulling that data, or a user wanting to automate subscriptions a bit.

      *I originally posted this with an example that I immediately realized was incorrect, so I corrected that.