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I created a new local community recently, and it immediately had 45 subscribers. When I say immediately, I mean like programmatically upon creation. These were not even local subs, but rather subscribers from other instances.

What would cause this? Is it something to be concerned about?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Content only federates when at least 1 user is subscribed to the community. It is bots from across the fediverse who have subbed and thus making your community more easily discoverable to their users.