When I try to browse it from lemmygrad, the newest post is a 10 month old post. But when I view on hexbear, it has recent posts. Is this a bug or intentional?
EDIT: If this is the wrong place to ask, could someone please direct me to the appropriate place?
And don’t mind the downvotes! You’re a regular user here, it’s not people from the grad.
The libs are running scared of hexbear, anything’ll set them off.
Thanks comrade! I thought I had just posted in the wrong comm or something.
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, I’m experiencing the same problem. Also, I tried to subscribe to that community, and instead of “Joined”, it just says “Subscription is active”, like this:
I wonder if that might be related. Though, I believe that also happened when I tried subscribing to !askchapo@hexbear.net, but after checking again, I am subscribed to that community now.
EDIT: I guess the most “correct” place to ask would be !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml, but I understand not wanting to engage with lemmy.ml considering how annoying it has gotten after the Reddit invasion.
Thanks for replying! Glad to know that it also happened with askchapo. I’m guessing that maybe it’s a bug then.
My impression is that, once you federate you start receiving new posts from the instance. You don’t receive a historical record of their posts.
I had an argument with a liberal in an old thread who I thought was feigning ignorance by ignoring all the information in there. Unfortunately, all they could see were the new comments that were added!
I’d be willing to bet that the old post you’re seeing has been commented on or interacted with in some way post-federation, and that’s why it’s showing.
But that’s the opposite of the problem here. If you click the link in the post, it should show what we see. New content is not populated. Only the very old is. I thought that searching and/or subscribing was all it took to get it to federate. But it just seems stuck.
Ah, sorry to clutter the conversation! I’m not sure what’d do it then.
How did you find the comm? I’m unsure if federation works properly until the federated comm has been found twice through the search function. This is hearsay and I may have misunderstood. If it’s right, I wouldn’t know if it needs two people to search or if one person could search twice.
I will search for ‘Hexflix streaming’ (a post that we know exists) and filter the community to !announcements@hexbear.net. If you do the same, we might force it to sync. But this is very trial and error.
Edit: update: I tried it twice in my end to no effect. If you try it and it works, we know the answer. Although maybe it takes a while to get the instances to talk to each other. Also I just realised that I think the search thing is to get the comm to show in the ‘all’ feed. I notice there’s an !Announcements@test.hexbear.net so maybe that causes a conflict? Again, I’m just making poorly-educated guesses.
Nope. Tried unsubscribing and resubscribing as well, now that the site’s back up. That didn’t work either. Looking more and more like a bug.
Better than my guesses! I clicked the link from this post to get there. I’m pretty sure I subscribed to it then, but I just realised today that it wasn’t updating when I was trying to find information about the blahaj.zone defederation. I’ll try explicitly searching for it when the site is back up though. Thanks again!
