• MyopicTopic@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Pretty sure it doesn’t “take a while” for things to sync up. Once an instance is discovered by another, any posts from that point forward will appear, but anything made before then will not. I have personally seen new instances sync with kbin.social that have less comments than if you look at the main instance’s thread. They have added more comments, but only new ones made after it was discovered.

    Whether I’m right or not, I’m not sure. Would have to hear from the devs to know for sure, but from all I’ve seen there is no syncing of archived or historical postings, just discovery of and acceptance of new data from other instances.

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      1 year ago

      This is my understanding as well, after using a number of different instances over the last few months.

      I believe this issue will mostly sort itself out in the future as the federated network becomes more “connected”

      A new instance connecting to an existing one will have content from the established instance missing, but as time goes on that content becomes a smaller portion of the overall content.

      I anticipate some development on this issue in the near future anyway, perhaps cached content that is able to be “pushed” to a requesting instance.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah it’s still definitely an issue considering there will be plenty of old topics that people will want to search and refer back to, and any new instance or people making their own will be SOL if they come in years later after communities have been posting for a while.