I really like the Lemmy Community Browser at browse.feddit.de for locating communities across instances.
When I first stood up my instance, I guess it was crawled and my community showed up there. Awesome!
I’ve since rebuilt on a new domain and federated again, and my old instance dropped off (as expected). However, a day or so later, my new instance still isn’t showing up there. The new instance is known to join-lemmy.org and fediverse.observer, so it is discoverable.
I’m curious if anyone knows how often it updates and if that tool is based on a project I can clone to spin up another instance. I’m interested in both running a replica of it to act as another entry point as well as using it as a base to develop some quality of life enhancements. e.g. a click to subscribe option that ties into your home instance and does the initial search and subscribe steps.
There it is!
Thanks for checking back.
I want to say the blame lies 100% with me on this one.
When i moved over to the new domain, I forgot to disable my default WAF policy for
robots.txt
which is set to disallow all. Realized that late yesterday evening and turned that rule off in my load balancer.