I registered with some smaller instances in case of server issues and defederation (beehaw) with lemmyworld. I noticed a community ctpsd@lemmy.ml that I follow from Lemmy.world is not viewable at all on lemm.ee or midwest.social for some reason. It does not come up in search and if I manually go to it’s empty. If I go to my Lemmy.world profile and look at “posts” from lemm.ee or Midwest.social, my post to that community is not there at all. Other Lemmy.ml communities work fine on all 3 instances.

Messing around with this type of thing I’ve also noticed that communities have different numbers based on what instance you view them from…the number of posts are different. Some newer or “trending” communities have no posts at all when viewed from Lemmy.world, but they do have posts and subscribers when viewed from another instance.

Is this a federation issue, or something stupid I’m doing possibly? A setting or a glitch? I’m worried that depending on the instance I use I will miss out on posts or communities that I don’t even know about.

Thanks

  • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    If there’s a community C@A hosted on instance A, a different instance B might not know about its existence until some user on B has requested it.

    • mysoulishome@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      So if open the community on instance b (manually, because it won’t come up in search), subscribe and refresh…it should fetch it at some point? Seems odd because this is an old community with only 6 posts. It still isn’t showing up the following day

    • mysoulishome@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Sweet. The one I had problems with isn’t super small. It’s got thousands of users. Lemm.ee

      But seems like quite a bit of content is missing both ways between other instances.