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What is up with people creating Communities and then not even posting a single post in them? (southampton.social)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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@asklemmy What is up with people creating Communities and then not even posting a single post in them?

Like wouldn't you want to be able to grow a community by doing a post here and there, even just a welcome post to say why you created the community would make sense wouldn't it?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A. They're camping on it

B. They created it and invited people to post, but the invitees didn't, so no natural content growth has occurred

C. Your particular instance or fediverse software only recently indexed the community and can't see it's post history. The way Lemmy federation works, when a new community is "discovered" on a remote instance, only new content posted after the comm was indexed by your LOCAL instance will ever appear. Post history pre-discovery can't be indexed.
Or your software just straight up doesn't interpret Lemmy posts right.

[–] Lemminary 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ohh, so for C you need to wait a few hours/days? Interesting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yes, if it is an active community you will eventually see new content begin to appear once your instance becomes "aware" that it exists.

If youre not sure of it's activity, or you suspect it's not federating right, you can always hop over to the community's original instance and look at the comm directly to see how much activity there is.