• Scott@lem.free.as
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    1 year ago

    I thought that too but that’s not true. Once I subscribed to a community on my instance I could see posts from weeks and months ago… even going back years!

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      1 year ago

      That’s because someone else on your instance had subscribed to before you did. Content starts federating from the moment the first person subscribes to a remote instance

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        1 year ago

        I agree that federating only starts when the subscription first happens but you still get older posts.

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          1 year ago

          Ah, yeah, I know what you mean now. I do remember the devs saying that the first time a remote group profile is pulled, that the API returns the last 20 posts or something. It’s a different mechanism to subscription, but it makes sense, because subscription requires the group profile to be pulled first