• waterplants@lemm.eeEnglish
    31·
    2 years 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.

  • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
    21·
    2 years ago

    According to their documentation:

    • If you search for a community for the first time (no user ever subscribe to that community in your instance), 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. If you’re pulling a comment, sibling comments are not fetched, only parent comments got included automatically.

    https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/federation_getting_started.html

    • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
      0·
      2 years 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.instituteEnglish
        01·
        2 years 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. If your instance is in US, it’ll usually load but not always.