YSK About Trending Communities
YSK About Trending Communities
This is a bot driven community which scans subscriber counts daily and uses the difference to generate a list of trending communities. Great for discovering new, active and growing communities!
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Weird, I see no content there from my instance but if I open it normally I can see the two posts
It depends on if you were the first person on your instance to subscribe, and if that subscription happened before or after the posts were made. Lemmy doesn't do backfilling content, which means only new content after the subscription happens will be visible to your instance. I'm not a fan of that personally, but I can see why they did it that way.
AFAIK lemmy will backfill older content but at the lowest priority.
Oh that's interesting, that's the first I've heard of it. I wonder how one would go about testing if that works.
not sure, I just know that I've seen some communities I follow get a flood of older posts federating through every now and then.
It's coming up as empty for me too, how can that be if others from this instance have already subscribed? Does my subscription need to be approved or something?
how can that be if others from this instance have already subscribed?
How certain are you that the community was already subscribed to? You may be the first person on your instance to subscribe there. If that's the case you'll only be seeing anything posted after you subscribed.
That is, unless Faceman is correct, in which case lemmy.world will eventually backfill content when it can.
For example, I'm seeing three posts there on both my instance and when I visit https://feddit.nl/c/trendingcommunities. I'm fairly sure that when I first subscribed I could only see the first post, but definitely not sure that's the case.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Thanks bot, but you weren't needed in this particular case. You're a Good Bot though.
Well I'm on lemmy.world, which I understand to be the largest instance, so I assumed someone would probably have subscribed before me.
https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] still comes up empty for me, but on https://feddit.nl/c/trendingcommunities I can see three posts.
I'm also struggling to load some of the comments on this thread, they just keep loading endlessly. If lemmy.world needs to run some sort of process to fetch posts from federated instances then maybe these two issues indicate that the server is overloaded at the moment? Sorry for my cluelessness, I'm new to the fediverse.
so I assumed someone would probably have subscribed before me
I think the community is very new, so there's a decent chance you were the first. As to the overloading problem, it's certainly possible. Lemmy.world has a ton of users, and while I know ruud is dedicating a lot of resources to your lemmy instance, it just may not be enough to keep performance great. There's been a lot of reports of performance problems by both lemmy.world users and federation problems between .world and other lemmy instances, most likely from being overloaded. You might try setting up a secondary account on another instance if you're inclined, can't hurt. Then at least you'll be able to compare. Mine is on sh.itjust.works and everything has been pretty decent for me since the latest software upgrade, just as a point of reference.
Sorry for my cluelessness, I’m new to the fediverse
No worries mate, we're all new here. I'm still getting used to things too.
Oh, thanks for explaining that. I started following some kbin magazines on my instance and thought there was maybe a sync issue, but no new posts have been created yet, so this makes a lot more sense!