cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2669274

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2669228

I’m fairly new to fediverse/instances, but my understanding that these Instances are federated with each other, so they can show the same posts/communities (depending on their respective filters).

So, why does searching for communities show different results, and even show different subscriber counts for one that do appear across all results?

Is this a case of the servers just needing to sync with each other?

  • SolOrion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Wait so the ‘instances’ list is every instance the one you’re on is federated with? Does that mean beehaw refederated us here? I’ve not heard about that, but they show on the list.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Federation requires both sides to agree for it to fully work. Beehaw defederated on their side, but that doesn’t stop other instances from accessing their content. Ot only stops other instances from having any posts or comments show up outside their copy of beehaw.

    • andyquest@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      No, the original answer is incomplete. Search results are only the communities a given instance has loaded/ cached in the past.

      To load a new community you must directly open it by typing this into your Url bar yourinstance.com/c/newcommunity@theotherinstance

      It will load the community and then it will show in search results, unless it’s defederated