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definitely a good place to ask this!
My linited understandign based on Lemmys docs (https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/federation_getting_started.html) is that only the community you subscribe to will federate:
That should explain the missing content as well: Lemmy only fetches a portion of a community at the time of subscribing, and only the content created after the initial federation will be sent to us - you can manually force a refresh by getting the link to a comment on the remote instance, and searching that on our instance - that'll get all the data about its parents, but that's admittedly pretty inconvenient. The process is described in more detail in the docs linked above!
Thank you so much, that clears it all up nicely!
It also might help to understand the fundamental logic behind why that would be the case, which is simply, that dramatically reduces the amount of network resources eaten up, without impacting user experience.