Hey guys I noticed this morning while trying to search for !leagueoflinux@kbin.social from my instance that it is not found. The community browser can’t find the community and I’m not able to see any posts if I type in the url for it directly. If I access the community from a different lemmy instance I’m able to see the posts. Here is an example:

can’t see the posts:

can see the posts:

What causes this and is there any way for me as a user living on this instance to fix this?

Thanks

Edit: Idk how to fix the urls but if you copy / paste the text into the url bar manually it works

  • someguy@lemmyland.comEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Just guessing, you might be the first person to try to visit that community/magazine from your instance, so lemmy doesn’t have the posts from before trying to federate.

    There should probably be a message after federating a new community that tells people that old posts aren’t retroactively added to your local instance (unless done manually or unless that changes in the future). Or just something that tells users when a community was federated locally.

    • SpicyTofuSoup@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Oh interesting how does the federation process work? I’m not even able to find this community/magazine by searching from my instance. When I search for it it shows no results. If I search for kbin.social I only see about 10 or so magazines