• Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Due to the way federation works, you won’t see content generated from before the first time someone on your instance subscribed to the remote community. Once someone on your instance has subscribed to it, then it will federate all future content to your instance

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      1 year ago

      I thought that too but that’s not true. Once I subscribed to a community on my instance I could see posts from weeks and months ago… even going back years!

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        1 year ago

        That’s because someone else on your instance had subscribed to before you did. Content starts federating from the moment the first person subscribes to a remote instance

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          I agree that federating only starts when the subscription first happens but you still get older posts.