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?
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.
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.
Correct. If 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.
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 👍🏼