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Why do some posts and communities not show up on all instances? (lemmy.ml)
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Reddit refugee and Noob to lemmy/fediverse here.

For example, I'm currently logged into my lemmy.ml account, and subscribed to [email protected] 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 [email protected], 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?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why can't you maintain two accounts exactly? Also, lemmynsfw was having issues early on in their AI porn community where some very questionable stuff was being posted, requiring an explicit age rule to be implementing.

When you sub to a remote community that content is synced to your home instance. I wouldn't touch NSFW content being federated to an instance I own either. Way to much of a liability. Especially since I would be at the mercy of the random users Im hosting.

This is a strength of Lemmy imo.