tgxn/lemmy-explorer

Lemmy instance not showing on list

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chenew commented

Hello! I stood up a Lemmy instance on June 25th. I’ve been checking for a few days and it hasn’t shown up here yet. Is there anything I need to do on the server for the crawler to discover it? Instance name is techy.news. Thank you!

tgxn commented

What's your community's hostname / address?

It looks like it was discovered 05:02 - Sunday, July 2nd, 2023 (SS from my local dev version)
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I'm just working on some new instance stats pages, I'll push an update later today.

How the discovery works: It uses a seed list of communities and scans the equivalent of the /instances federation lists, and then creates jobs to scan each of those servers.

How long it takes to discover a new instance can vary depending on if you post content that's picked up by one of these servers.

chenew commented

@tgxn Thank you!!