Hi, I recently moved to Lemmy and decided to take feddit.de as my primary instance. I would like however to actually see other communities on other instances too. So I set out to check other communities. Take https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/freemediaheckyeah as an example. When I open that link directly I can see many posts:
When I visit that exact same community thru my instance there are only 4 posts and the stats in the lower right corner look way different:
What am I doing wrong? I have set my languages to be german and english. Also I have activated NSFW in case that was connected to this issue.
I’m new here too so not entirely figured everything out, but I think they might be defederated? I don‘t know the communities involved, but if two instances defederate each other, I think they don‘t exchange any more data between servers, leading to situations like this where you only see a few old posts and nothing new. So, if you create a user in the other instance, you wouldn‘t see any new content from the one you‘re originally from either. I seen something similar happening with beehaw for example which is an instance that defederates a lot including a server with one of my accounts.
It‘s a weird quirk of this whole system, but it helps if you think of the first part of a website as it‘s own bubble which may or may not connect itself to other bubbles, they have streams of information between them that the admins can cut off if they want. You can circumvent these issues it has on you somewhat by having different accounts for any bubbles you may have gotten locked out of.
As it all grows, I expect some little islands of opinion to form with one big blob with most non-controversial stuff on it.