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?
the subscribe count is how much people from the specific instance is subscribed.
at the bottom of the page it the link “instances”, clich on it and see if at example lmmy.net is federated or not.
Instances can defederate others foe reasons like keeping is sfw or like beehaw (at least like a month or so ago it was like this) the fear of too many new trolls
Yep, use lemmyverse.net to search.
We’re integrating lemmyverse.net searches into the browser extension were working on (see more on https://lemmy.ca/c/instance_assistant) so that it pops up right on the Lemmy UI, but for now I just open it in a new tab
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.
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.
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
The way I understand it is that communities aren’t cached (if that’s the right word) on your server until someone directly searches for it.
This is pretty much it
i think that if you wait some time and refresh, they should all show the same results. unless some instances are defederated.
