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I can only see one post from !python@lemmy.ml on my instance (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by soeren@iusearchlinux.fyi to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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When I go on !python@lemmy.ml I can see many more posts.

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Due to the way federation works, you won't see content generated from before the first time someone on your instance subscribed to the remote community. Once someone on your instance has subscribed to it, then it will federate all future content to your instance

[–] soeren@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

TIL thank you

[–] scott@lem.free.as 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought that too but that's not true. Once I subscribed to a community on my instance I could see posts from weeks and months ago... even going back years!

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's because someone else on your instance had subscribed to before you did. Content starts federating from the moment the first person subscribes to a remote instance

[–] scott@lem.free.as 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree that federating only starts when the subscription first happens but you still get older posts.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Ah, yeah, I know what you mean now. I do remember the devs saying that the first time a remote group profile is pulled, that the API returns the last 20 posts or something. It's a different mechanism to subscription, but it makes sense, because subscription requires the group profile to be pulled first

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