So, to explain in more detail: I read about a new community on newcommunities and I decided to search for it so that it started federating with Kbin.

However, when I visit the community on lemmy.world, there are already 32 posts from before the community became visible on kbin, but I can only see the posts that were made after I “discovered” the community on Kbin.

  • czech@no.faux.moe
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    1 year ago

    Yes- if anyone interacts with those posts after the community has been federated then the entire post gets sent over. eg: someone “likes” a comment or posts a new comment.

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      1 year ago

      I see. I assume you mean the interaction has to happen on the remote side then, since we can’t see the posts on Kbin?

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        1 year ago

        Correct. If someone on that instance, or who is federated with the content on that instance, can do it. If you use a lemmy.world account and upvote all the posts they should federate to your instance.

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          1 year ago

          I just tested it with my account on lemmy.world, and the posts do indeed show up on Kbin now.
          That’s really good to know. Thank you so much for the explanation!

          • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
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            1 year ago

            Interesting, it seems to work the same way between Lemmy instances. It would be nice if I could force a more thorough federation, but it’s good to see most content will eventually come through on its own time.