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minus-squarebadblocks@badblocks.rockslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoThey explain it on the project’s GitHub: How does discovery work? 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 till my instance shows up? 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. Since the crawler looks at lists of federated instances, we can’t discover instances that aren’t on those lists. Additionally, the lists are cached for 24 hours, so it can take up to 24 hours for an instance to show up after it’s been discovered till it shows up.
minus-squareblazera@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoAnd why is it using this method, and not the third party sites method that sees more?
They explain it on the project’s GitHub:
And why is it using this method, and not the third party sites method that sees more?