Code for people interested https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/app/admin/routes.py#L373
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.
Or they like it and e.g. want just one strong 196 community.
That nobody is federated to.
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.
That doesn’t make any sense because it doesn’t block the new 196 community because it uses letters
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?
What is a “196” community? I tried looking it up and there’s only astrology stuff coming up.
To add to the other responses, it was the very first community I blocked upon moving from Kbin.social (when it died) to Lemmy, since while the content is not so much “bad” it is just so… MUCH.
And I’ve heard the same story from so many others. It makes browsing All - particularly by New - very difficult by overwhelming the space.
As already mentioned, it moves around a lot - there are at least three communities here now, and also on Reddit before there was a r/196 there was a r/195, so it moving and splitting and continuing on is kinda its thing - sorta exactly like the Fediverse itself!:-)
It’s a meme community with a special rule (see the sidebar).
https://www.reddit.com/r/196/ (the original)
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/onehundredninetysix
Aha. My gratitude for the links.