I am trying Lemmy for the first time, and have subscribed to a community on another instance as a test (https://sopuli.xyz/c/homebrewing).
I can see the posts come though, but few if any of the comments are there. Obviously if I visit the community directly they show up, but then I can’t post/comment as my account is with this instance.
When a community gets synced to your instance for the first time, it doesn’t get all the posts and comments. Once your instance knows about that community it will sync all future posts and comments.
If there’s a particular post you’re interested in, it might find it if you search for the post title (using search in the top right).
This seems less than ideal…
It’s the nature of federation. How things appear will differ from server to server.
Even Reddit has this to some extent… vote totals are not always consistent between servers.
Yeah I get that. I still think a full sync upon subbing would be better.
If I sub to a new community specifically to reply to a comment but then that comment doesn’t appear, I’m a bit SOL right?
Only if no one on your instance has ever subbed to that community before.
Ah, so at the start it will happen a lot, but if this instance grows in size it will be less of a problem?
Yeah, and it also depends on how big and how new the community is you’re subscribing to.
It may also be something the devs change eventually.
Thanks mate