I am trying to find an additional home base lemmy that I jive with that is a bit smaller and less likely to get crushed. While exploring I have found disparities in which foreign communities I can search for and find despite all being in the federated instance list. Most of the time I can’t find the community I know exists, or I do find and the User count is so wildly off that I question if I have found the correct one(I have).
It seems to me that the communities@foreignInstance are irregularly/periodically updated into a local cache. If I am correct can Lemmy servers at least expose ‘Last Update time’, ‘Next Update time’ and just general mean time between updates?
Yeah, it coulf use some work for sure. The way i see it is that users will adapt to the way the fediverse works and the fediverse will adapt to the way users work and a middle ground will be reached. A lot of the crys of “its to hard” are made by people who really dont want to leave the platforms they are on anyway. Some are valid to be sure, but at least those types try it out and can give real information about where they struggled to understand