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Is there a way to sync/federate posts that have been made on other instances (like lemmy.world) before the community was discovered on Kbin? (kbin.social)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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.