Lemmyverse removed a bunch of instances?
from jeena@piefed.jeena.net to fediverse@lemmy.ml on 23 Nov 12:47
https://piefed.jeena.net/post/76757

So I remember a couple of days ago when I went to lemmyverse.net it showed about 30k communities, now it only shows 9k. Does anyone know what happens?

I was trying to search for a coffee community and it didn’t basically show anything, same for espresso while I know that there are communities about it.

Do some alternative community search engines exist which perhaps even find PieFed and Mbin communities?

#fediverse

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DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca on 23 Nov 13:11 next collapse

I know that other services, like the trending community bot, that recent had issues in the same vein. The trend bot only showed like 3 communities, and it normally shows about a dozen.

So, there is likely a federation issue, or something wrong with however these services get their data.

RobotToaster@mander.xyz on 23 Nov 13:35 next collapse

Possibly related bug report: github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/issues/191

OpenStars@piefed.social on 25 Nov 00:51 collapse

MrKaplan mentioned that there were a ton of "spam communities", so possibly they have since been removed. They weren't real anyway. https://lemmy.world/comment/13613002.