Why some community’s appear empty in kbin while if you go to their instance they have posts?

  • fearout@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    As far as I understand, to see the posts you need at least someone from your instance to subscribe to a given community, and only after that you’ll see new posts going forward (fediverse pushes content to other instances instead of pulling all the content on request). And you won’t see any pre-subscription posts anyway, since it’s apparently a lot like actual irl magazine subscriptions — you only get the new stuff once you subscribe.

    So, subscribe and wait for a day or two, and you should see new posts appear in your feed.

    • shepherd@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I feel like it would be nice to pull at least some content when the first person opens the box lol. Maybe the last 10-100 posts, or from the past 30-90 days, or whatever.

      Maybe do this kind of smaller sync every time another user subscribes to it until it’s fully synced up, 'cause that means we all really want the content lol.

      Kbin could do that independently right? Or would ActivityPub need to change to allow that?

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        1 year ago

        I’m pretty sure it’s currently baked into the protocol. But instances themselves could probably add crawlers to fetch a few recent posts. You might want to ask @kbinMeta about that.