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Why can I see some lemmy.world communities but not others coming from kbin.social?

Basically title. As you can see, I see this community and can post to it fine. But some others just return a 404.

This is the link that works (for kbin.social):
https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

And here's one that doesn't:
https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]
actual link: https://lemmy.world/c/imperor

Any input/Help would be appreciated!

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  • The communities have to get cached from your local instance. And sometimes it takes some time. I would suggest to search for it directly. And it looks like the url u send works now.

    • Still returning 404 for me and searching directly on kbin doesn't give me results, sadly. Could it be also an issue with caching on my end? Like, do I need to clear cache and cookies? Would be odd, but I don't want to dismiss it as a requirement.

      • Try another browser. Then you would 100% know if it is your currently browser

        • Good suggestion! Thank you. Just tried it, still 404 for me. Really odd.

          • Really odd ;( I am sorry to hear that.

            • Searching for this helped @imperor

              Now I can subscribe, but it's still empty, but it's not 404 anymore. Now I can access it through the link as well. Man, this federation stuff still is a bit midn-boggling despite being such a simple concept. Devil is in the details.

              • Wait for the instance to start caching content from the comm. It might even take a few days, but eventually, it will start caching. Sometimes it might lag though, like cache for a day or two, than stop for a day or two, than catch up... these are all home servers or VPSes, they're not as powerfull as the servers corps have at their disposal 🤷.

                • Yeah, that makes some sense. Seeing the community also says created by Ernest and like half an hour ago or so. Seems to me the instance creates a local copy, once it's first accessed (or automatically found) and that has to be cached periodically. Slowly starting to click together, how it all works.

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