Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml invicticide @programming.dev 1 yr. ago

How does the Subscribed feed actually work?

I've been using the Subscribed feed as my default view for a while. I understand that this is exclusively content from communities I've subscribed to, but it also seems to be be some subset of that content. If I go into an individual subscribed community, I almost always see a bunch of posts that I don't see on the Subscribed feed at all.

How does Subscribed choose which posts to show and how to order them?

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What sort are you using? If you're using a time based sort like Top 6 Hours it will exclude older content.

If you sort by New are you still missing posts?
- I'm sorting by New. My expectation was a linear chronological feed of posts across all subscribed instances. And yeah, I'm still missing some posts in that view.
  
  Interesting, sounds more like a bug than a feature. Looking at my instance, I can't find any examples of posts not displaying in the subscribed feed that do appear in the community feed. Is it affecting both local and federated communities?
  
  Federation isn't instantaneous. New is good enough if you're checking it a couple times a day, but minute-to-minute it's got some wobble.
  
  It should, there is something strange happening

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