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Thanks for the explaination. I'll give that a try. So once one person on the instance causes a sync will it apply to everyone else on the instance? e.g. Become searchable?
I like using https://lemmyverse.net/communities for discovery
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I always forget about that one. Thanks! It’s so much better looking.
Yes, exactly. And the first time you do the sync, it only pulls the past 20 posts. So it doesn't pull down the full history.
If you see a post you specifically want, you can search for its URL, and it'll pull it down if someone has already joined the community. If not, and if you see a post that's 21 posts old, you'd first search for the community to start the syncing. Then you can search for that old post to fetch it down.
It's a bit cumbersome currently. But it's new and will get better with time. Mastodon is another federated network, and they have some workaround to prevent such a headache. We'll get it soon enough.
But once a community is in sync, it'll stay in sync from now on. So it's only a headache until there are regular links between instances.