SOLUTION FOUND - thank you
There is a community called Tarot on lemmy.world, and I want to subscribe to it. The url is https://lemmy.world/c/tarot. I’ve been to lemmy.world when not logged in and I can see it there. But when I try to find it from here, I can’t. I tried putting !tarot@lemmy.world in the search and got “no results found”. I’ve been told that “someone needs to search for it, for it to appear”, but I have already tried to search for it, many times. What else needs to happen for me to be able to see and subscribe to this community?
Or do I just have to make a second account on lemmy.world?
its because no one has yet subbed to that community from your instance, as a result it may take some time for the information to come over. I find sometimes searching for a post in the sub helps but it can take multiple tries and a wait before it works.
Once you get there, sub and with in a day youll start getting updates from that community on your instance.
How far back will posts and comments appear? I’ve had issues where I’m getting like 10% of the votes, comments and posts from communities on other instances.
if the server has not synced it before then it starts at the time of the first sync. there is no concept of syncing archives in this protocol though the API does support it IIRC
Can you link to or describe the API support for this behavior?
this is the process i have observed with setting up my own instance along with helping a number of people with theirs having the same issue in the matrix channel.
the api has a call called get_posts you would need to call it on the instance the community is on. I don’t think anyone has a proper archive sync tool and if one arrived i suspect some discussion around how it could hammer an instance.