I saw no one's posted here for a few days, so I checked out the futurology subreddit and there's nothing there to direct users here other than a small link in the sidebar.
There was a previous thread on this community (which I don't see anymore) noting that most of the users here were from lemmy and not reddit, and there was a discussion about how to attract more people from reddit.
It looks like you've largely given up on that?
https://futurology.today/post/164245
Your instance only knows about users, posts, comments and even communities that it’s already been “told about”. This is how federation works in general on other Fediverse softwares too, but specifically on Lemmy it means someone from your instance needs to be subscribed to a community in order for new posts / comments to federate.
It is definitely a big downside for a lot of people, yes. I’ve seen various discussions among server admins of how to handle it, I think some use a bot to basically sub to everything as a workaround to populate the All feed without real users being subscribed. If your server has a meta community maybe you can ask around there whether they’re planning on anything like that?
Futurology.today blocks fewer instances (and is blocked by fewer) than lemmy.world https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances so it can't be that.
I tried to search this community before posting and when I go to https://futurology.today/c/[email protected] then click the search icon in the top right, it loads a search page https://futurology.today/search that is searching the whole fediverse.
So I click on "community -> all" and type in "fediverse" then click on this community, and it takes me to https://futurology.today/search?type=All&listingType=All&communityId=70&page=1&sort=TopAll. I see "&communityId=70" in the URL but the page still says it's searching the whole fediverse.
Are either of these bugs that I should report on github?
If I do a search from https://futurology.today/search?type=All&listingType=All&communityId=70&page=1&sort=TopAll it does only search this community. But if I use the first link it doesn't.
Example of it built-in via old.lemmy.world https://old.lemmy.world/post/1941511
There's also phpBB for Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB if anyone's interested.
