No, they are corrrect, I guess I should have added this part in the post too. The way federation works on lemmy is only after someone searches and subcribes to a community for the first time from another instance, only then is the information about an instance fetched.
This is done this way to prevent flooding and overloading the local instance with every single other instance at once (and to not waste bandwidth connecing with spam intances). So if you set up your own personal instance, you'll need to search interesting communities once yourself to view them later (or set up a script to do something like it).
huh that's weird it seems like lemmy being buggy, clicking the link worked for me.
Anyway here's a direct link: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/133647
Interesting thanks for linking it. I was under the impression that both platforms couldnt see each other yet. I'll edit the post.
There are many ways, best would be to either create a pull request on github or join us on our revolt instance.
You can create a post here toom but once (if) the community becomes more active it might get buried in other posts.
Sorry this is something happening on our instance for a while. Restarting the server fixed it for a while, so we do that 5 times a day, but obviously that's not the ideal solution. We are trying to find a permanent fix for this, sorry for the inconvenience.
comments and upvotes work similarly in the fact that only users from federated instances will show up.
But also yes there is a short delay before comments sync in general too aside from the above fact.
For upvotes it only shows upvotes from the instances your home instance is federated with, so for a smaller instance there's a chance it has not the same big federation list as some more popular instances and thus show smaller upvote count.
The beehaw and world defederation (which I assume you are referencing) is temporary because beehaw believes the increased traffic cannot be moderated without proper mod tools.
And while you're right about mainstream things like gaming or technology won't have a single main community, I feel more niche communities will be able to setup their main communities. Obviouly that's just my opinion, but there are some signs of that happening already. (c/piracy for example)
Hey, appreciate the gesture but we are not taking any donations at the moment. We want to wait as long as possible before accepting any.
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