Comment on Does lemmy federation sync old posts or just posts that have been updated since a user subscribed?
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 year ago
According to their documentation:
- If you search for a community for the first time, 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.
dandroid@dandroid.app 1 year ago
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.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 year ago
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.
dandroid@dandroid.app 1 year ago
I have had it happen equally on lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, and beehaw.org. I am in the US.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 year ago
Strange, it usually loads 20 posts on my instance after a minute or so, unless if the community is from lemmy.ml.
can@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Tried any from sh.itjust.works?