There was one called Homophobia that got like 50 members after being created like 10 minutes before. And of all things, a community about homophobia. With a drawing of a Confederate beating up gay people.

  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
    35·
    20 hours ago

    Communities will only show up on remote servers if an account from that server is subscribed to that community. To increase accessibility and enhance the user experience, many servers have a bot account that will automatically subscribe to new communities so that they can start receiving posts in that community. That accounts for the majority of the instant subscribers on new communities.

    • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      20 hours ago

      Yup, pretty much. I’ll lazypaste the response an instance admin made after I asked a similar question recently:

      Probably the community follower bot which several instances subscribe to. It’s a way of automating new communities discovery. There are about 40 of them.