I’m very new here but I decided to check and compare the posts in a community on lemmy.world (where I have my account) and that same community on the instance where it resides and the posts were almost all completely different! Is that how it’s supposed to work or are they supposed to be synced? Sorry if this is a noob question, I’m new here

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[–] sudoreboot@slrpnk.net -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know if this is the same question worded differently, but I'm unclear about what is supposed to be synced when a community gets federated.

Let's say I'm the first one on my instance to sub to a community on another instance. At first it is of course empty because it hasn't been federated, but after a few moments the posts, old and new, start to show up. However, existing votes and comments appear to not get pulled in - only new ones created after the moment the community was initially federated.

Naturally, I don't expect votes, posts or comments from blocked users or instances to sync. But the rest should be IMO - at least lazily (e.g. only when you visit a post do comments and votes on it get pulled in).

Edit: it seems that comments and votes do sync after a while, but I can't verify that it's complete (though I assume it is).