Inconveniently Harmless
People can be pretty quick to jump the trigger on this stuff, I got a report about you being a bot too. It’s all a bit silly.
Yes it can, I can see it pop up in the lemmy.world search just fine. Federation is a bit wonky at first but now that it has been linked, it should be relatively smooth sailing.
It’s true, some instances do de-federate us. Not all, hence I can talk to you here, but some do.
As an instance we do not suppress content based on political views, and this rubs many people the wrong way. I can’t change what they do and I can’t change their minds either, so it is what it is unfortunately.
Hey, firstly thanks for starting a community on our little instance - we are glad to have you!
I have used lemmy-federate.com on your behalf to federate it more broadly.
Regarding your issue, Lemmy can get a bit confused when you’re logged into multiple instances from the same browser. Your best bet is to clear cache and try again.
Edit: Just read some of the other comments, lemmy.ml and some others do indeed de-federate us, which is why you won’t see the community from there.
Definitely, post as much as you like, it will federate automatically to all the linked instances.
A word of advice is to stagger the content a bit (e.g. give it 10-20 minutes between posts) - I personally don’t care but other admins might perceive posting too much, too quickly as spam. You or your community can still be banned locally on other instances.