Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread - February 12th, 2025 (#612) [Atlas Shaves Edition]
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 1 week agoIf 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 week 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 week 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.