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
I don’t know if it’s related, but I sometimes have trouble seeing all the posts in non-local communities. Sometimes I have to go to the originating instance. Evidently this is something that’s supposed to be resolved or at least mitigated with the latest 0.18.0 release, but my home instance has not upgraded yet.
Even with 0.18, the design of replication of comments and posts is not robust enough to deal with all the complexities of peer to peer distribution. There is an open GitHub issue on this matter: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101