Submitted 10 months ago by Nusm@lemmy.world to support@lemmy.world
I am a big NFL fan, and I found the instance nfl.community. It has a community for each team, as well as a general NFL community. I joined a couple of the communities through my lemmy.world account, but it sees no posts there. I know this instance isn’t defederated from nfl.community, so why wouldn’t I be able to see any posts? I don’t understand, what am I missing?
This is the main NFL community if that is what you are looking for
I’m also subscribed there, but I wanted to subscribe to the nfl.community one as well. Also, I’m a Falcons fan, and the most active Falcons community is on the nfl.community instance, and I can’t see any posts from there either.
I thought I was supposed to be able to see posts from every other instance unless we defederated from it? I used my alt account at lemm.ee, and the posts show up like they should, but not with my lemmy.world account, and I’m unclear as to why or how to fix it.
Can confirm !falcons@nfl.community shows zero posts from here, but I see plenty here.
Its not just you.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !nfl@lemmy.world
Did you just subscribe now? Are you the first from your instance?
Yes, I just subscribed, and I’ve no idea if I’m the first from lemmy.world. But shouldn’t I be able to see the posts if I subscribe to the instance?
If you’re the first it may take time to federate over. Still having the same issue?
cerevant@lemm.ee 10 months ago
If you go to that website directly without logging in, do you see the posts? It is entirely possible that there are no posts there - sports communities aren’t getting a lot of non-bot traffic.
If there are posts, how old are they? If you are sorting by top, you won’t see any posts that were posted outside your selected time frame.
If neither of those are the issue, I’d blame Lemmy.world. They have cloudflare rules that block other instances without listing them as defederated. It is possible they’ve moved to a whitelist or some other trust based model that blocks new instances by default.
This is a side effect of them having been under a near constant DDOS and other cyberattacks, and so is definitely defensible, however it ultimately hurt the UX for me to the point that I just moved to a different instance.
Nusm@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I just went and checked without being logged in to lemmy.world, and the latest post from nfl.community/c/nfl is 5 minutes ago, the one under that is 37 minutes ago. This seems to be a pretty active server, which is one of the reasons why I want to subscribe to communities on it.
I’m assuming this is a lemmy.world issue, which is why I’m posting here. I’m hoping that it’s just some mistake, and that there’s something that can be done, because I don’t want to move instances again. But it’s that important to me.