So… I get this on some of my subscribed communities on other instances. I get some of the content, but nowhere near all. Is there a ranking which preferences synching of other instances communities? The more popular ones never seem to have this problem… Or is there just ‘lag’ between instances and it’s something that will have to be dealt with in the infancy of the fediverse?
Sometimes the federation is quick, and sometimes it’s slow. kbin.social has been wonky with federation ever since I joined haha. it was down entirely the first few days, and now seems to mostly be working (albeit sometimes is slow or misses posts for a while). I think these are mostly just teething issues though, since kbin is very new and just recently scaled massively to a degree that’s unfamiliar to the admin. I’m sure things will be worked out in the future.
But your suggestion of joining the instance that you interact with most is probably a good idea. It lets you be “safer” about losing access due to defederation (see how lemmyworld was blocked by beehaw). it removes federation issues (it’s all native content), and the users there are probably more similar to your own way of thinking/doing things.
I interact with a lot of lemmy.world threads, but I don’t have any intention on migrating there. I like kbin, even if it means missing some lemmy.world threads.
I like kbin too and I think my preference will be to stay here. But I’ll see how things pan out - if these are just teething issues and federation problems continue to improve then I’ll stay here, if not then I suspect feddit.uk will end up being the more obvious place for me to settle if I want to guarantee access to the communities I engaged with most on Reddit. But there’s no rush.
Yes. keep in mind kbin is really only one month old, and in these past few days went from like 1k users to 30k. things are still WIP, the servers are being hit hard, etc. Give it a while and see if things start working out. Federation is already working much better than it was a few days ago when I first joined.