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Any way to see past posts of a newly added community? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by Mintyytea@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Is there any way to get all the past posts of a community where I'm the first to subscribe/adding it to my instance?

If there is, then that's really great, but if there isn't it's sounding like a con to me, of making an account on a newer instance.

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[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You could just visit the instance where the community is hosted tho?

[–] PorkrollPosadist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the only way is to check the home instance (or a peer instance which has been around long enough). This kind of sucks, but there is a reason for this. We need to keep it affordable for people to start new instances. It would be impossible to start a new Mastodon instance if the baseline requirement was to download and host everything which has ever been posted to mastodon.social. The problem would only get worse as the network grows older, and this would place a burden both on the established instances and the upstarts.

After a few weeks of history build up, it doesn't make nearly as much of a difference than it does on day one.

[–] Mintyytea@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thanks for your answer. It's making sense to me. I do think this kind of thing might encourage more users to congregate on the large instances, but who knows, maybe it wouldn't be that bad if we continue making a new large instance if one fills up. Like how we have lemmy.ml, and now filling lemmy.world, and lemmy.world has a good experience.

I also am not entirely sure too how exactly the posts get populated, because I'm visiting some communities I added on that smaller server only a day ago, but it does show some posts from 7- 9 days ago (they don't have any new comments or anything), so yeah maybe I also don't completely understand how it works still. I added this one to the server I'm on - lemmy.studio - and I think I only added it today, but it's showing some from a few days ago: https://lemmy.studio/c/kbinMeta@kbin.social/data_type/Post/sort/Active/page/1

[–] dystop@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think reddit, lemmy or kbin has that.

You can just go to the community page after you subscribe

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