Reddit refugee and Noob to lemmy/fediverse here.
For example, I’m currently logged into my lemmy.ml account, and subscribed to !anime@lemmy.ml and I can see a lot of posts there. I can also see that it has over 3K users.
If I log into lemmynsfw.com, and look at my subscription to !anime@lemmy.ml, I only see a few posts, and I know there are several that are missing. Also, it tells me that the community only has 8 users.
Is this synching problem common in lemmy, and/or the fediverse in general?
Do I have to create a new account on each server hosting communities that I want to keep up to date on?
I’m not sure but it might be that they defederated? A fair number of instances don’t federate with nsfw ones. Here’s an explanation of defederation: https://lemmy.world/post/149743
Both instances list each other under Linked Instances, on their respective instances pages, fwiw.
As far as I can tell, this is a defect in the design of Lemmy. When you go to lemmy.example.com/c/cats
Apparently the server only shows you /c/cats posts made in that server. This annuls the social part of this social media network.
lemmy.example.com/c/cats must show all /c/cats post of the entire fediverse.
Nobody cares about only /c/cats on some random instance like lemmy.example.com.
If this is not fixed soon, the Reddit user base will realize Lemmy is broken and go back to Reddit, just like twitter users did with mastodon when they realized it’s unusable.
You are really missing the forest here. I’m registered on a explicitly Marxist-Leninist instance, where I talk to like minded people. I might want to talk to them about Cats, and only them.
However, I’m subbed to a lot of other communities outside of my instance. My subs are synced with my instance and then show up in the All list on the instance for everyone to explore.
There is a instance explicitly for Starteck, startrek.website, it 3 communities. I’m subbed to their c/startrek and my instances c/startrek and both instances engage with startreks very differently.
This is the strength of Lemmy. It’s more likely that over time niche instances will become the norm, where the communities within them are centered around something (a ideology, a brand, a fandom), but because it’s federated everyone can connect with everyone if they wish.