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Is it worth making a new community on this instance if there is an existing community elsewhere but there hasn't been any posts for 5 months and the moderator is away? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by Yoga@lemmy.ca to c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

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[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

FYI that's normal behavior.

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So you're on lemmy.ca. But lemmy.ca does not know every single community that is made anywhere in the fediverse, because the creation of a new community is not automatically broadcast.

If a user on lemmy.ca accesses the new community, THEN all of a sudden lemmy.ca knows about it. But it doesn't download all the old posts, it only gets the posts that are made after lemmy.ca found out about it.

So probably 5 months ago someone made the most recent post on yoga@lemmy.world, then a couple months after that someone on lemmy.ca heard about it and subscribed. But nobody posted anything to yoga@lemmy.world since then, so lemmy.ca's view of yoga@lemmy.world has nothing on it.

(edit: I take it back, in some cases lemmy does get the old posts... i think it might have something to do with the lemmy versions involved.)