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I've set up a new community (!giveaways@piefed.ca) but I'm seeing almost no activity - I know this is normal to a degree, but to receive only one reply on three posts offering free stuff feels weird. I also saw another user complaining about federation from piefed.ca, and when trying to share the community with Lemmy Federate as recommended on the sidebar, I just got an error. Have I done something wrong, is it an instance issue, or is it just coincidence and regular low traffic?

Also, I'd love to get other feedback if anyone has time.

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 10 points 5 days ago

You also missed out on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca. That might help to boost it.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I can see it normally from Piefed.zip.

I see that you promoted it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world recently, so it should be fine.

Lemmy-federate had issues recently, maybe try again now?

[–] PlzGibHugs@piefed.ca 0 points 5 days ago

Lemmy-federate had issues recently, maybe try again now?

Unfortunately no luck. It looks like Lemmy-federate doesn't play well with piefed.ca, since all other communities listed there just say, "waiting to be processed."

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 5 days ago

I joined it which should bring more posts to my instance. good luck.

[–] tae_glas@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 days ago

possibly..? when i went to the community directly, it only showed me 1 post & 15 subscribers; then after going to it via your post history, it suddenly showed 3 posts & 21 subscribers.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

I have it on dbzer0

[–] homes@piefed.world 3 points 5 days ago

I can see it from piefed.world 👍

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's visible on sopuli.xyz; thanks for the giveaways!

Was going to give someone else a chance to win it since I've won a few things in the past on Lemmy, but if I there's still no comments by tomorrow, I'll make a post for the Sid Meier's one.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

I saw the fedigrow post and subscribed to the community. That should help it federate a bit.

[–] LoonyLenny@lemdro.id 2 points 5 days ago

I subscribed, see three posts.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago

Wasn't seeing it here on reddthat yet until I tried loading it manually, so I'm guessing the bot that automatically subscribes to new communities failed.