Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml agustinh88 @lemmy.zip 12 mo. ago

Changed instance = no posts

Today I changed from Lemmy.ml to Lemmy.zip and noticed that I can communities but some of them appears without any post. But when I go to lemmy.ml they have publications. Why?

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Lemmy.zip has not federated yet. If you subscribe to the community, it should federate with it and pull the 20 most recent posts. Don't quote me on this, it's just what I've read.
- Erm... sort of. The instance federates with other instances when it is created. But two instances being federated does NOT imply that every post/comment gets replicated between them. Rather, a given community starts replicating when the first subscriber on an instance subscribes.
  
  If you mostly subscribe to popular communities from a big instance, you won't have encountered this just because it's unlikely that you'll have been the first to sub to any community. But if you get into niche communities, newly created communities, or switch to a smaller instance... you may be the first to subscribe and then more or less what you're describing takes place. But it's about subscription and replication of a particular community, federation between the instances must have been set up already for you even to find and subscribe to the community in the first place.
  
  Thanks for this...indeed the community I have on ml still doesn't show anything in lemmy.zip
  
  Is there any way to see older posts in a situation like this? I created my own instance, and am only seeing the most recent handful of posts from communities I subscribed to.
I've noticed the same thing when I switched to my newly set up personal server.
- Awesome!
- must run on linux?

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