I mean, it’s a currently approved PR

There’s also an active Issue about replacing captchas (which are often an issue privacy-wise) with a mCaptcha, where you computer does “Bitcoin-Like” useless calculations which the server easily can verify that you did.
So it would be much more costly to make a billion spam accounts

For future reference, that’s exactly it.
to find a federated community that no one else has searched for, you need to go to the searchpage on your instance, like:
https://lemmy.ml/search
then search for the whole URL, like:
https://lemmynsfw.com/c/porninfifteenseconds
then it should show up.
Although I’ve had it that the search page needed a reload and that it first showed no results and after that switched to the found community.

yeah, it just started showing up, pretty sure.
but porninfifteenseconds@lemmynsfw.com still doesn’t show up (at this point)
and https://lemmy.ml/c/porninfifteenseconds@lemmynsfw.com doesn’t (yet) work.

But I guess it’s a time thing then? takes a bit to sync, especially under current loads

but your main community !lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com does show up when you search for nsfw
https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com works as well.

so your instance would have to be on the allowlist, but do you have to allow communities as well?

Why don’t communities show up on lemmy?
!porn@lemmynsfw.com for example can’t be found if I search for the community porn under all.
https://lemmy.ml/c/porn@lemmynsfw.comdoesn’t exist either, but shouldn’t it?
Is it a federation thing? does lemmy.ml not federate with lemmynsfw?
Is it too new to show up still?

what is the catch there?

Is scaling the server a largely financial issue, or not? @nutomic@lemmy.ml

could you reasonably confidently say that you could 10x the amount of users for something like 1000$/mo on liberapay?
If so, would you mind setting a “goalpost” for the community to help lift the financial burden?