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.

  • density@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    @ChrisFhey I was playing around with accounts on multiple lemmy/kbin instances and making communities to see what would happen. I made communities which wouldn’t be very attractive to others and didn’t promote them at all to see how it would go if left alone.

    From what I can tell:

    • Say you create a community on kbin.social July 1
    • Each day at 00:01am, you make 1 post.
    • On July 5, an account on lemmy.world subscribes to the community
    • lemmy.world can see posts made July 6 onwards
    • if lemmy.world account goes to the kbin.social URL (on community home instance) for the July 3 post , copies the URL to fediverse, searches the URL on lemmy.world, that post will now be available on lemmy.world

    So to get a new community going across instances, especially a niche one, a bit of working the system might be needed. The best thing would be to make one account on the top x instances, then use each account to search for each existing post.

    This would be a “bot” thing arguably but it would one require 1 account to do 1 search per post to create the “interaction”. I am not sure if each comment requires the same treatment as I haven’t delved into that. This is pretty slow to do. There was a lot of waiting to see if stuff would happen on its own. Which mostly it doesn’t.

    If anyone thinks I’m wrong about the details, please tell me. This is just what I thinking goes on.