Code for people interested app/admin/routes.py#L373 (removed since posting), app/cli.py#L1026

I commented it out, rebuild the Docker containers and it works now 👍

EDIT: People seem to misunderstand what it does. It prevents it from federating automatically when populating the community search, importing from another instance or from Lemmyverse. It’s not a full block, and you can still add it manually. Not only that, but it’s also already partially removed since I posted this.

  • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    That could be the point. No such community on a new instance can be found by others so the original community receives all the attention.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      That doesn’t make any sense because it doesn’t block the new 196 community because it uses letters

      • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        What do you mean? 196 is part of the list in degenerate_neutron_matter’s comment so a new 196 channel would be blocked.

        Do you mean that the official 196 channel uses words and if somebody copies that it is not blocked? True but who would do that?

        • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
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          2 hours ago

          This isn’t a “block” as such. You can still view meme and 196 content and 196 from piefed.social. As another user said:

          "The code that OP has linked to is part of a convenience function for admins to add content to their new instances. It can query individual remote instances (e.g. lemmy.world), or it can query lemmyverse.net, and fetch communities that look to be popular and active.

          It’s completely unrelated to routine federation, and doesn’t prevent anyone subscribing to communities that may have those words in their names."