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?
EDIT: I just reread my post and realized that I didn’t mention that there are tons of post on all the communities on this instance, but nothing shows when logged in through World.
SOLVED: So I had the chance today to reread through this thread and do some digging based on the replies, and I’ve figured out the issue. I went back and looked at nfl.communities, and it turns out that can@sh.itjust.works is correct - all the posts on that server are by users that are from the alien.top instance. Those aren’t actual users, alien.top just scrapes posts & comments from Reddit. So those aren’t actual posts by Lemmy users, and, as can said, there wouldn’t be any engagement from anyone on that server, because they won’t see my posts & comments. Lastly, I followed a link can posted with bot rules, and one of lemmy.world’s policies is “Bots shall not just be posting Reddit content”, which is exactly what alien.top is doing. That explains why World is blocking all the posts from the nfl.communites server.
Thanks to everyone who responded and helped sort this out!
Hm, I see posts and I don’t think anyone on my instance subscribed. I’m using an app though. Are you possibly filtering bot accounts? It’s an account setting.
I have “Show bot accounts” selected.
I can see posts if I’m not logged in or logged in to any other instance. It’s just when I’m logged into my Lemmy.world account that the instances are empty. And it happens on the web and multiple apps, which makes me think it’s a World problem.
Could be a dot world issue then. I’m on sync and it’s working from sh.itjust.works
It’s in the instances list but it doesn’t show that it’s running lemmy.
Maybe ask support for lemmy.world?never mind I see that’s where we are now. Is there a Matrix chat you could ask in?Edit: oh it’s possible they have the alien.top bots blocked since they’re mirroring redditors comments?
Yeah, I can log in on my alt from lemm.ee and see all the posts fine, so it’s got to be a World issue.
Do any other communities with alien.top posts work from lemmy.world? One sec I’ll find an example.
Edit: try !homelab@selfhosted.forum
See anything?
I see 1 post titled “Mini PC + DAS as NAS” from 6 days ago, and nothing else. Am I supposed to see more?
I picked it because it was the first I saw in my all feed and there’s multiple posts every hour if I sort by new.
I just have the one. Does that give you a clue what might be causing the issue?
I suspect lemmy.world has blocked alien.top
Edit: yep, but keep in mind that’s just bots mirroring reddit threads (though ones not marked as bots are reddit users that have “adopted” the account). So you’re not missing much actual engagement on Lemmy. But for sports if you just wants the top highlights and links from reddit maybe consider another home instance.