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?

czech, 10 months ago

Yes- if anyone interacts with those posts after the community has been federated then the entire post gets sent over. eg: someone "likes" a comment or posts a new comment.

ChrisFhey, 10 months ago

I see. I assume you mean the interaction has to happen on the remote side then, since we can't see the posts on Kbin?

czech, 10 months ago

Correct. 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.

ChrisFhey, 10 months ago

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!

TheSaneWriter, 10 months 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.

density, 10 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.

euphoria, 10 months ago

yes this happens, but it resolves itself over time, and the posts will show up within a few hours or days. this happened to me on a few of my mags i federated between kbin/lemmy, eventually all the posts showed up 👍🏼

roofuskit, 10 months ago

No.

ChrisFhey, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Darn, that's a bummer. :(

Edit: It turns out that, as per czech's answer you can let the posts federate by interacting with them on the remote.