Does lemmy federation sync old posts or just posts that have been updated since a user subscribed?

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• waterplants@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  🧟John is a 🍎lemm.app user, he subscribes to 🐢turtle community on 🍌lemm.ban

  he is the first ever to do this on 🍎lemm.app

  so 🍎lemm.app creates a copy with the last 20 posts and now will always keep in sync with future posts

  👩‍🚀Jill is also a user on🍎 lemm.app, she subscribes to the same 🐢turtle community but a year later.

  she will be able to see all the posts of that year all the way up to those 20 posts.

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  • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Succinct, example based; great work!

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  • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Great example

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• 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.

  join-lemmy.org/…/federation_getting_started.html

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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• Jedi@bolha.forum ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes

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• Mozingo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • readwritexecute@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    thats not the question

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