I really appreciate you looking into this more. Sounds like to help out I have to be more active and subscribe to more places via this instance. Thanks again for taking the time. I really appreciate the explanation
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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Glad to do so! Appreciate the questions and glad everything was sorted out.
Hello, @[email protected] ! @michael (admin) here - Lemmy is decentralized, which means that communities that have the same name (such as "technology") can be located on multiple servers - each with their own subscribers and subscriber counts.
If you view the list of communities and click the "All" option, you'll see all the communities on all the servers with which yall.theatl.social's users have subscribed.
So this is more complexity than Reddit, of course. That's by design. For now, the use case I'm trying to cultivate on here is local/Atlanta stuff.
Going forward, there needs to be better content/user/community discovery through globally searchable lists and communities. This should be coming in short order, it seems, as others develop on this platform.
I know what lemmy is man. The issue is if i go to say [email protected] it shows 0 subscribers and posts from 20 days ago. It seems like yall.theatl.social have a server that is not syncing
The subscriber count (if you are viewing through a web browser) is going to be the number of subscribers from this instance to the community on lemmy.ml. This server is working fine - perhaps if you joined lemmy.ml instead of yall.theatl.social, you may have a better experience!
I've joined several instances. Im simply pointing out an error or bug. You instance does not seem to be properly federating with other instances. I like this instance because I wanna be part of an instance that is closer to "home" but that said the browsing experience is significantly off. A lot of posts that show on all do not show on this instances of all. As well as the other issues i mentioned earlier about posts from communities being days old despite those communities being very active. Some of those communities that have thousands of subscribers don't show up in the community browser even. I'm just trying to sus out whats up? Or potentially point out a major bug and issue y'all are having?
I've reviewed the logs and it appears the issue is that some instances (such as the ones you were attemping to view) are using a newer version of Lemmy than the official release. The latest tag for Lemmy software is 0.18.2, while the last release is 0.18.1. I try releases and not tags, so perhaps dev forgot to do so.
I'll update, and presume that things will federate properly afterwards.
So, all updated - the issue is that Lemmy (currently) does not pull older posts or other metadata from a community from another server until a subscription is made to that community/server.
So when you join a community from another server, you're not going to see a lot, until that server "pushes" new posts to yall.theatl.social
That behavior may change with software changes, but it is what it is for now. The same issue occurs on Mastodon too. If you are on a larger server, you won't have this issue, because it's likely that larger server has been receiving posts all along.
