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Not seeing posts in subs from other instances--Where's the problem? (ttrpg.network)
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Basically what I said. This is the latest episode in the main speedbump I keep hitting with lemmy.

I'm trying to follow broadly when new TTRPG instances crop up. (DIYRPG.org is the latest I know of, and the one I'm currently having trouble with.) When I navigate to the communities from my ttrpg.network account, I can't see any of the existing posts.

So is the problem on this end (ttrpg.network isn't asking for the content) or their end (diyrpg.org isn't sending the content)? And is there anything I can do about it?

If this can't work smoothly, I'd at least like to know how it works.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

yeah, the above is likely the issue. If there's a community with 0 subscribers on on this instance, then none of the content will sync. As soon as there is at least one subscriber here, all new stuff will begin to sync, but it will never sync the history over unless you explicitly search it out as mentioned below. This is how Lemmy is designed to work, and i assume the reason is because syncing a huge back-catalogue could be very problematic from a resources perspective.