Other communities aren't federating properly?
Is it normal that posts from other instances aren't synchronising to my home instance? I know that federation can be slow, but it's been several days since I subscribed to the instance and still nothing is showing up. The same has happened with other communities as well.
On my instance:
On their instance:
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My understanding is, a community doesn't start federating until someone on your instance kicks it into motion, usually by searching for it (as you have just done). From that point onwards, posts from that community are shared with your instance, but it doesn't go backwards in time.
This is my impression, but hopefully someone else will chime in.
To my knowledge, it'll populate the community with some info when you search if it isn't federated, but won't continually populate with new posts until someone from the instance subscribes to it (sometimes taking a few hours to fully federate & populate). And yes, I do believe it won't really populate old posts.
I've seen this through kbin as well. I can view far fewer posts through kbin than I can see from their home instance. I haven't figured out why yet.