Reddit refugee and Noob to lemmy/fediverse here.
For example, I’m currently logged into my lemmy.ml account, and subscribed to !anime@lemmy.ml and I can see a lot of posts there. I can also see that it has over 3K users.
If I log into lemmynsfw.com, and look at my subscription to !anime@lemmy.ml, I only see a few posts, and I know there are several that are missing. Also, it tells me that the community only has 8 users.
Is this synching problem common in lemmy, and/or the fediverse in general?
Do I have to create a new account on each server hosting communities that I want to keep up to date on?
I’m not sure but it might be that they defederated? A fair number of instances don’t federate with nsfw ones. Here’s an explanation of defederation: https://lemmy.world/post/149743
Both instances list each other under Linked Instances, on their respective instances pages, fwiw.
Ah, I think this post answers my question.
IMO this is a key weakness of Lemmy as it stands right now.
That, and I need my nsfw, so defederating lemmynsfw.com from here is a big minus for this instance.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but once an instance has been defederated with another, you will not be able to see posts from users associated with that instance, even if they post into a community that you are federated with.
I’ve noticed that viewing the same community through different instances even when not logged in can show different posts, comments, and votes. I’m not sure why either.
For example, compare these:
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
i would think that this is due to server load and it’ll sync up overtime