this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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I created a post on lemmy.world. I am subscribed to that same community here as well. I don't see my post here yet. How long should it typically take for an article from a different instance to show up here?

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[–] nachobel 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Somewhat related, I’m also curious as to what the benefit is to making accounts on multiple hubs, if there is one at all…

[–] netburnr 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Each site has a slightly different subscription therefore slightly different content.

Also some sites might go down from time to time so having a backup site to use is handy.

[–] SpaceNoodle 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How does signing into one instance inherently alter the content? Are not most instances federated?

[–] ReadyUser31 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It changes the content you can easily browse on Local. You are right it shouldn't change Subscribed or All.

[–] netburnr 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Federated only the communities that a local user has subscribed to. Smaller communities or duplicates might not be synced.

[–] SpaceNoodle 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The defualt "All" includes all federated communities. I'd expect a separate "Subscribed" option to handle that.

[–] netburnr 0 points 1 year ago

You just repeated what I said. All federated.

Federation is not automatic for communities. A person must subscribe to the community for a lemmy server to start pulling that community data for everyone.

Again. New, or smaller communities might not have been pulled into your preferred instance.