I've managed to subscribe to https://beehaw.org/c/osr@lemm.ee. I've checked that we are federating with lemm.ee. When I go to the original community, I see that there are a bunch of comments on posts, but I'm seeing none of them.

I know in Mastodon there can be some issues with not seeing posts from people that nobody you know follows, but since you don't follow people, can that be an issue here?

Is this just something where I need to give the server some time for all the data to propagate?

Is this at all related to the fact that all my subscriptions to external communities are "pending" (which otherwise doesn't seem to be a problem?)

Also, while I'm at it, is there a trick to adding communities from kbin that nobody else on here is following?

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[–] BitOneZero@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Is this just something where I need to give the server some time for all the data to propagate?

Yes. Propagation only goes forward in time from when the first person subscribes to a remote community. If you are the very first on Beehaw to join/subscribe, then only comments from that time forward will be copied over to Beehaw.

I do not believe there is any means to backfill postings and comments to peer instances.

[–] Varyag@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Still trying to figure that out. I think I can follow stuff from kbin here, and stuff from here over there, but I'm having trouble finding this particular post from lemm.ee and I'm not sure if it's just a thing that the servers need to work out between themselves yet. I'm sure all of them are currently overloaded with activity for now.