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Does lemmy federation sync old posts or just posts that have been updated since a user subscribed? (lemmy.icyserver.eu)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

According to their documentation:

If you search for a community for the first time (no user ever subscribe to that community in your instance), 20 posts are fetched initially.
After you subscribed, the community will send updates to your instance. So new posts, comments, etc will be federated going forward.
If you want to pull older posts or comments to your instance, you can paste their url into the search field and wait a few seconds to pull them. If you're pulling a comment, sibling comments are not fetched, only parent comments got included automatically.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/federation_getting_started.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have my own instance and that first bullet point hardly ever works. I usually get a complete empty community. Occasionally I'll get one or two posts, but they will have no comments or votes. Very rarely everything comes through as expected.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In my experience, it usually happen when you try to subscribe to a community from lemmy.ml. Their server's datacenter appear to have a shitty peering and often timeouts depending on your location/ISP. If your instance is in US, it'll usually load but not always.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have had it happen equally on lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, and beehaw.org. I am in the US.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Strange, it usually loads 20 posts on my instance after a minute or so, unless if the community is from lemmy.ml.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's been a while since I pulled a community. It's very possible it has improved recently.

[–] can 1 points 1 year ago

Tried any from sh.itjust.works?