Futurology.today blocks fewer instances (and is blocked by fewer) than lemmy.world https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances so it can't be that.

Search:

I tried to search this community before posting and when I go to https://futurology.today/c/fediverse@lemmy.world then click the search icon in the top right, it loads a search page https://futurology.today/search that is searching the whole fediverse.

So I click on "community -> all" and type in "fediverse" then click on this community, and it takes me to https://futurology.today/search?type=All&listingType=All&communityId=70&page=1&sort=TopAll. I see "&communityId=70" in the URL but the page still says it's searching the whole fediverse.

Are either of these bugs that I should report on github?

If I do a search from https://futurology.today/search?type=All&listingType=All&communityId=70&page=1&sort=TopAll it does only search this community. But if I use the first link it doesn't.

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 4 points 1 year ago

That's correct.

In terms of data handling, everything happens locally on instances. So if the instance doesn't have the data, it can't display the data. There's currently no mechanism in Lemmy to backfill communities and user profiles: it starts collecting data as other instances start pushing the data after a user subscribes. No subscription no data. Although I'm sure if an admin really wants to, they could make a script to go fetch and backfill a lot of that data.

The big problem is that's really resource intensive, you're potentially downloading GBs of data from another instance. So I can see how the devs don't want a new instance to bring down other instances with massive data transfers.

Thus, the authoritative view of a profile or community is on the home instance of those. It will never be complete on other instances unless that instance is subscribed to every community the user has been active in. But that's fine you can just go visit the remote instance to browse that data.

I think it's not bad. Users can be active on instances I don't care about or like, but from my perspective and my subscriptions, the user is well behaved. I don't need to know they got 5000 points posting to shitposting meme communities on some fringe instance. It's not relevant to me or my users. I'm fine going to lemmy.world to view a lemmy.world user profile. Or maybe they collected -5000 points from lemmygrad, but on !politics@lemmy.world they're well behaved and I don't need to be swayed by their negative points from another instance. I'd only care if I was participating on lemmygrad communities, and I would only see it if I'm subscribed to lemmygrad communities.