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is federation with lemmy.world working?
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Is there any way to force a full sync of community or even a single post?
Not that I'm aware of. Hopefully we get these tools with time. But as I understand it federation is basically a push action, the community host instance sends the updates out to all the instances with users subscribed. The instances don't send a request asking for updates as far as I know.
Ah dam. So basically, we are missing all content from before a user subscribes to a community on a different instance?
Something like that. I have heard basically that but if you go look at a new community that no one has subscribed to then it still shows you posts so there must be more to it.
I think it syncs a few recent posts, but not the comments when you first subscribe.
But I think there are other ways to get older posts synced?
Hopefully how this works becomes a bit more transparent and is improved over time. It's a bit confusing right now.
Yeah it's not very clear what's happening, and when people try to explain it I don't think it lines up with what we see. These things will get easier over time as new features are added.