I am a big NFL fan, and I found the instance nfl.community. It has a community for each team, as well as a general NFL community. I joined a couple of the communities through my lemmy.world account, but it sees no posts there. I know this instance isn’t defederated from nfl.community, so why wouldn’t I be able to see any posts? I don’t understand, what am I missing?

EDIT: I just reread my post and realized that I didn’t mention that there are tons of post on all the communities on this instance, but nothing shows when logged in through World.

SOLVED: So I had the chance today to reread through this thread and do some digging based on the replies, and I’ve figured out the issue. I went back and looked at nfl.communities, and it turns out that can@sh.itjust.works is correct - all the posts on that server are by users that are from the alien.top instance. Those aren’t actual users, alien.top just scrapes posts & comments from Reddit. So those aren’t actual posts by Lemmy users, and, as can said, there wouldn’t be any engagement from anyone on that server, because they won’t see my posts & comments. Lastly, I followed a link can posted with bot rules, and one of lemmy.world’s policies is “Bots shall not just be posting Reddit content”, which is exactly what alien.top is doing. That explains why World is blocking all the posts from the nfl.communites server.

Thanks to everyone who responded and helped sort this out!

  • Nusm@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I just have the one. Does that give you a clue what might be causing the issue?

    • can@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I suspect lemmy.world has blocked alien.top

      Edit: yep, but keep in mind that’s just bots mirroring reddit threads (though ones not marked as bots are reddit users that have “adopted” the account). So you’re not missing much actual engagement on Lemmy. But for sports if you just wants the top highlights and links from reddit maybe consider another home instance.

      • Nusm@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Well, on the NFL & Falcons communities there seems to be a good bit of engagement with the posts, and I’d like to participate in that. I guess I’m going to have to move instances again. Not ideal, but I’m a huge NFL/Falcons fan, and I really want to interact with this instance. It’s disappointing that it’s blocked.

        • can@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          I’ve had no complaints with my instance, and clearly it’s all available here. There are tools for migrating subs and blocks at least.

          But keep in mind a lot of that engagement might be from reddit

          • Nusm@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Thanks for the offer, but I’ve got an alt on lemm.ee that I set up when I first moved to Lemmy, and World was getting slammed with DDOS attacks. All the posts show up when I’m logged in on that account, so I may just move back over there. I’ve got LASIM to sync my subscriptions, so there’s that.

            • can@sh.itjust.works
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              1 year ago

              lemm.ee sounds good too. I’ve heard some people have had issues uploading images there but that might not be a problem for you.

              • Nusm@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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                1 year ago

                Yeah, I think the limit is 100K for images, which causes a problem sometimes.

              • Nusm@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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                1 year ago

                Thanks for all the replies and the help. I updated the original post at the top with the solution to the problem. I now know why I can’t see the nfl.community posts & comments, and I’m not really sure I want to any more, since it’s not actual posts from Lemmy users, but just Reddit scrapes (like you said).