Only heard of it recently is it another federated platform like Lemmy or pixelfed?

  • unconsciousvoidling@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    i get it… the server i belong to hasn’t mapped its own path to the outside server. So if i run a search it will then have knowledge of that and map it so that future visits will seem as though it’s part of your server instance and then you can subscribe etc. ill try this when ever i find the kbin site instances that my server doesnt know about. thanks.

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      1 year ago

      Yes. For the sake of efficiency, every server wont go out and get everything thats on every other server. Only what at least one user has specifically asked to see. And when you are that first user, you have to a bit more specific when you ask for it. Once that connection is established, everything gets synced over, meaning everyone subbed to the same thing, all see the same thing, regardless of where their account is.