• redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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    1 year 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

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      1 year 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.

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        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.