Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread - February 12th, 2025 (#612) [Atlas Shaves Edition]
DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 1 month agoAh sorry, I misunderstood that. 😅 I can definitely see the point in that then, even though I myself am politically left-leaning; it’s a quite harsh/borderline extremist userbase on those servers.
(Side question: so it’s not a limitation of our server if some communities are displayed as “completely empty” despite having thousands of members and hundreds of posts?)
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 1 month ago
If a single user of sub.wetshaving.social subscribes to a community, our instance will start pulling new content for that community. Old content isn’t really pulled, even if you subscribe.
If nobody is subscribed, the first time someone views it it’ll probably show as empty. In the background it’s doing its best to gather some posts though, so refreshing after 10 seconds should show the most recent content.
DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 1 month ago
Thanks for the thorough explanation! It is really helpful. I always assumed it was due to the small size of our instance and that it might not be federated with every single server. What you wrote makes a lot more sense though!
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 1 month ago
No problem. To expand on it a tiny bit, once a single user subscribes to a community (on another instance), that community is then shown under “all”. “All” doesn’t show anything if nobody is subscribed.