So I just downloaded Liftoff and found a couple of communities on an instance I’d never heard of before, and I decided that I wanted to subscribe to them on my lemmy.ml profile. We are federated, and when I view the communities through the main instance I see a bunch of posts and subscribers, but when I try to view them through lemmy.ml it says there is 1 subscriber (me) and no posts. I tested this on my mobile browser. Jerboa, and Liftoff all with the same result.
Is this one of those cases where it’s a bug and will sort itself out, or am I doing something wrong? I don’t wanna miss out potentially cool communities if they just aren’t coming up for me
A Lemmy server does not “backfill” the postings and comments in the community when it is the very first on your local server to subscribe. It only goes from the time of the first successful subscribe forward.
The code to back-fill does not currently exist, so it isn’t a choice by the people running the server, it’s a lack of capability.