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?
Yes, it’s the bots that subscribe to federate the communities.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 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.
clot27@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I thought having one person on any community of an instance is enough to federate with all the communities there…