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[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

So is the All feed actually all communities and not just ones federated to your instance by virtue of someone on the instance subscribing? That was really the crux of my question.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

Ah, this is completely different and has nothing to do with sorting. All means the latter, IE communities connected to your instance, that your instance knows about. Lemmy doesn't crawl anything, federated communities need to get subscribed to first, then posts can start coming in for them.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Yes but also no. Because if the contents of All are unique to each server, that has some implications for which posts appear in the various sorts, right? Maybe I'm overthinking and the effect is minute, but I feel like in at least some cases it would mean less active posts could squeeze out more active posts.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Its best to just think of them as separate to keep it clear. Sorting affects all posts (federated or not) in the same way.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Alright. I appreciate the conversation. I feel like I'm not getting my point across, but that's cool. I'm not going to keep bugging you. Thanks again!

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