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Why is [email protected] empty when browsed from this instance? (ani.social)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For some reason this particular community doesn't have any posts on this instance other than my own recent one. But when you browse it from other instances, it has a lot, for example look here:

Is this a bug?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Probably something went wrong with the initial federating of the community.

Communities don't appear off-instance on a given instance until at least one user on that other instance has deliberately searched up that specific community, and subscribed to it.

When that occurs, the community gets synced to the other instance, and future updates are federated to other instances with subscribers as they come in, provided there is at least one subscriber on the other instance. This way every server does not need to host a copy of every community on every server. Only what the users on it actually want to see.

If the subcount drops back to zero (from that other instance), the federating stops.

Without a subscriber, the content is not available on the other instance.

The community seems to be working, but the past content has not synced the way it is supposed to. At this point, if it hasn't, it likely never will. Future updates should work though.

You can also trigger federation manually by putting the url of a post or comment you want to interact with in search, while logged into your own instance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I've noticed something like this with other communities I subscribed to, now you've confirmed my suspicions on this sorta "lazy sync" thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Lemmy only sync's about one page of posts, and without the comments or votes. And only once too, so if someone comes in a month later and tries to see it, it won't even update those old posts.

So yeah, just need someone to subscribe to it and be patient as new content rolls in naturally through federation.