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  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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    1 year ago

    So, posts get federated when someone is subscribed to the group in question, but not before then. If you’re the first person on your instance to subscribe to a group, then you won’t see content from before then. It’s designed that way, because sending the entire community history every time a new instance pops up isn’t sustainable.

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      1 year ago

      So, new or newer instances will not be able to view old posts and comments from established instances? Wouldn’t this behavior discourage new instances from forming as the bedrock of content grows? This behavior suggests I should make my account on the oldest and largest instance I can find, rather than branch out to smaller, newer instances. Is that what you would recommend to new users?

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        So, new or newer instances will not be able to view old posts and comments from established instances?

        They can, they just have to search for it manually. So if you see content on a group that your instance isn’t aware of for some reason, if you copy and paste the URL in to the search box of your instance, it will pull the post across for you to interact with.

        Wouldn’t this behavior discourage new instances from forming as the bedrock of content grows?

        Not really. Aside from the fact that things like mailing lists remain useful even without easy access to their archived content, there are a few mitigating factors as well

        Firstly, as I mentioned above, you can manually pull content across.

        Secondly, if someone who can see the old thread replies to it, then that will force it to federate to your instance, as long as someone on your instance is subscribed to the group.