I subscribed to communities, but my Lemmy instance receives only a few posts, comments and votes. I can see linked instances, but whether or not they sync data feels hit or miss. I’m not quite sure if this is expected. Does Lemmy have a utility similar to the Matrix federation tester?

  • MeldrikAEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The instance might be very busy and it won’t sync older content from before you subscribed.

  • PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago
    • Federation only sets up a channel to exchange data, very little comes across during initial federation.
    • Subscription only requests that FUTURE posts/comments/votes/updates get sent to your server. It doesn’t do historical backfill.

    If you sub to active communities, new posts will populate in a normal way. You’ll have an incomplete view of existing megaposts that predate your subscription. Click the fedi-link to scope those out on the server that hosts the community. You won’t be able to vote/reply, but you can see what’s there.

    Within a few days, the vast majority of posts will be fully fleshed out. Try browsing by new in the meantime, you’ll see more posts that we created after your subscription landed, and spend less time in ghost-town posts where you’re missing all the comments.

  • 🇺🇦 seirim @lemmy.proEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m also curious, with my new instance, sometimes it seems like we’re receiving the content we should be, other times not so much.

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Are you on a private instance? It can take a long while for your instance to catch up to current stuff.

    As far as testing federation… you posted to lemmy.ml from your instance… federation is working :)