this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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that's due to the way information is populated, while your instance can see the content, it doesn't actually know its there until you search for it which populates that data (in simple terms anyway)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's as if instances are countries and communities are cities. A state gets connected to a city of another state when someone decides to drive there (search it). When someone does that, it creates a street that both states can take (and so posts and comments from that community automatically get to the other instance).
Am I getting this right?