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?

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    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.