• Dave@lemmy.nzM
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    Not that I’m aware of. Hopefully we get these tools with time. But as I understand it federation is basically a push action, the community host instance sends the updates out to all the instances with users subscribed. The instances don’t send a request asking for updates as far as I know.

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      1 year ago

      Ah dam. So basically, we are missing all content from before a user subscribes to a community on a different instance?

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        1 year ago

        Something like that. I have heard basically that but if you go look at a new community that no one has subscribed to then it still shows you posts so there must be more to it.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah it’s not very clear what’s happening, and when people try to explain it I don’t think it lines up with what we see. These things will get easier over time as new features are added.