I only see one post when I go through my Local instance, but I see a bunch of posts when I open the community in its Home instance. Does anyone know why? And how I can see the rest of the posts so I can interact?

  • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee
    51·
    1 year ago

    There’s a bit of an issue with federation in general at the moment, it’s being worked on. But also if you were first from your instance to subscribe to this community, I believe (feel free to correct, someone more knowledgeable than I) it now starts pulling in new posts but not necessarily going back and pulling in old ones.

    One thing you can do is pull posts or comments in manually. If there’s a particular comment you want to reply to, search for it’s original URL on your home instance and it’ll not only pull over that comment but also the post itself. If you just want the post to show up and don’t care about any comments, search the URL for that instead.

    Not ideal behaviour but we just need to work within the limitations for now.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      That makes sense. A bit of off-putting for those who want to interact and lurk on both old an new haha

      I know they’re working on making it more friendly in that regard. Until that happens, though, I may multi-account it.

      • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah I think there’s definitely a strong argument for backfilling at least the few most recent posts (and their comments) on first subscribe, rather than leaving communities looking essentially empty for that unlucky first subscriber. But whether that would cause some technical problem I’m not smart enough to understand…who knows. Whatever works best for you in the meantime!

        • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          I think it can, essentially, flood the instance with comment data acting almost like a DDoS attack in a way. I know there’s a way to make it so you can view the posts (without interacting) through an almost RSS style view, keeping the data on the community instance. I don’t know if activitypub is compatible with this, though.

      • Hotchpotch@beehaw.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        Keep in mind that Lemmy is basically still beta. A lot of functionality hasn’t been implemented yet.

        • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’ve used live betas before. This is the most functional live beta product I’ve ever used. To be fair, I used it several years ago, and 0.18 is MUCH better and more complete than whatever version I used back then. The devs have done a great job with the improvements, and I’m sure they’ll continue on the same path!