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OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I recently started a Kbin account and noticed that a few of the communities I searched:

were empty, and
had, in their info, the claim that they had started right when I searched them.

Which tells me that the Kbin instance only stores local information about a community after the first of its members searches that community.

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kglitch@kglitch.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You got it.

This is a limitation of the ActivityPub protocol so similar kinds of behaviour / problems shows up in mastodon, etc as well. Until someone subscribes, it doesn't exist locally and posts don't start to flow unless there is a subscriber.

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- pokemaster787@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Until someone subscribes, it doesn’t exist locally and posts don’t start to flow unless there is a subscriber.
  
  So does this mean that if I’m browsing “All” I’m not actually seeing “All” but “All from the communities/instances members of my instance subscribe to”?
  
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  - SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yes
    
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    pokemaster787@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That explains a lot, then. When I was on Vlemmy before it was deleted “All” seemed a lot more populated, now I moved to a smaller instance and it seems a lot more repetitive.
    
    It’s a shame it works that way since everyone says the “ideal” is a ton of small instances rather than big ones.
    
    Thanks for the clarification!
    
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