Noob here. Sorry in advance :/

Via lemmy community browser I managed to work out I want to subscribe to https://lemmy.world/c/nba. And I think I did that correctly. It was added to my profile.

When I follow that subscription in my profile, it takes me to https://aussie.zone/c/[email protected]

This shows me some of the topics, but all the threads show 0 comments, vs the 100s of comments in https://lemmy.world/c/nba

I assumed federation meant that I could could subscribe, view discussions, and comment on aussie.zone server to another server’s communites.

How would I see all the topics, comments and be able to comment on the NBA community above?

  • Lodion 🇦🇺MAEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    This is one of the major use experience issues in lemmy. Currently comments are only synced to federated instances from the time someone subscribed. Comments before this point are not synced.

    I’m hoping at some point the Devs will add a feature allowing users to “pull” old comments from the home instance on demand. I don’t know think it is a priority, if it’s even on their to-do list.

    • MXYp3Lk66yKvOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Ahhhh! If I subscribed to a community with 100s of TB of data, I see where that could mess things up XD.

      And on the outside internet world, I wonder what a search on eg duckduckgo is gonna return when a single thread is duplicated across 1000 lemmy servers…

      Federation/pub/sub are hard. Replication is hard. Duplication vs single source of truth is hard. Expiry is hard.

      Thanks for your response.

      • MXYp3Lk66yKvOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Since my OP, there are now some comments flowing through to various posts in aussie.zone NBA

        What I found interesting as well is that apparently only upvotes from that initial subscription time are included as well. Eg, this comment on aussie.zone currently shows 5 upvotes vs 19 at lemmy.world

        In the end, given the short lives of threads in these types of media, in a day or two it won’t matter; all the new posts/popular posts for the past couple of days will be here. Only the history will not be available, and I guess you can easily enough navigate to the original community via the ‘replicated’ community.