If you are the first user from your instance to subscribe to a community from another instance, then historical posts and comments will not be immediately synced. This is a limitation of the Lemmy software currently. However, if old posts start getting some new activity after you've subscribed (like a new comment or edit), then that will trigger a sync and the old posts should start showing up for you as well.
Yeah I have noticed on lemmy.studio, a newer server, some of the communities from either kbin or lemmy didn’t update, but then after some time, som of them diiid update, with I think all of the old posts, and even if those old posts didn’t have comments. So maybe that’s why it happened for me but some are still unupdated
If it is a new instance install, the data starts empty and only fills each community after the first person on that instance subscribes. There is currently no tool or protocol for backfilling older content.
At this point, Lemmy isn't even keeping up with the load of sharing comments, posts, likes. There is significant missing data on remote server content not getting copied over to the other servers. Growing pains.
Oh I see, I think we have to be comprehensible the devs might be working really hard right now to fix issues that might have only come to be perceived as Lemmy grew so fast in the last week.
It is a current limitation. On Mastodon you can fetch replies by loading a post, but this isn't the case on Lemmy at the moment. The comments are empty because you're the first person in your instance to follow a community
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