Like many others, I created accounts on a few different instances to try things out. Using apps like Liftoff and Jerboa make it very convenient to switch between accounts, but I’ve noticed that I get different posts showing up when browsing All, even with the same sort settings.

Can someone explain why that would be? I don’t think any of the instances I’m on are defederated, so shouldn’t I see the same posts across different instances?

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    1 year ago

    I read an instance will only mirror content after an user requests it, so different people may have different requests.

    for example if I want to follow a community about gardening on lemmy world, and nobody else from my instance is following content from lemmy world, then my instance doesn’t show lemmy world- until I subscribe to a community. Once I do, my instance will start receiving lemmy world content, and everyone else from my instance will be able to see lemmy world (even if they dont follow anything there) if they browse All.