I have an account on kbin. Recently I saw a post across my feed of a magazine I follow (that’s based on a Lemmy instance) was celebrating over 1k subscribers. When I visited, I saw only 240 or so.
I decided to check it out from a Lemmy account and saw well over 1k. I also saw massive amounts of content that was not being pushed to my kbin account. Even when looking at specific users, I could see only the occasional post they made was visible to me on kbin while on Lemmy I could see massive amounts of content that they had posted to this magazine.
It bummed me out because one of the things they shared is extremely niche and I’ve never seen anyone else out in the wild interested in that topic and I would have loved to engage… But it never made it to my kbin feed.
Is this an issue with kbin vs Lemmy? Is there hope it will be fixed? I feel bad because I don’t want to use Lemmy and have loved kbin but am certainly jarred that I’ve been missing out on 80% of the content from a magazine I’ve been invested in engaging with.
TIA
I think right now it’s like you can communicate but you have to call or check up on each other often, especially if it’s niche. When you put in a web address in your search to find another community from another instance, they’re calling to see if you can get the number. Once you subscribe, it all depends on how you have the time specified and if they have called into to check with all the other instances. That’s for Lemmy to Lemmy, not Lemmy to Kbin which is probably worse. Please anyone correct me if I"m wrong, but that’s my understanding.
Half right. I can talk from kbin->kbin/lemmy. Since that is what I’m doing here.
Yep, when you search for a remote community your instance will connect to the remote one to look for that community/group/user. If it finds it, it will show all the info about it. Kbin will also automatically subscribe you to it.
Once the remote instance has your subscription, from that moment on it will send all interactions with that community to your instance. This results in some confusing things happening. You’ll see a lot of new stuff start to appear, but sometimes old stuff, but not all old stuff. The reason for this is, if someone on another instance comments or likes a comment on old content, your local instance will not be able to action that like (or at least show it) or comment without getting the comments above that one up to the post. Which is why you’ll see a mix of old and new content, but never all of it.
Thank you for explaining it to me, I finally get it. That’s why a 3 year old post was showing up a couple of days ago and then I liked it not seeing the date, then a whole bunch of the same post started showing up. My like must have sent it to someone else to start a cycle of bringing a 3 year old post back to life.
Yes, that’s likely exactly what happened.