I recently migrated or better yet am still in the process of migrating from feddit.de to dataterm.digital. I really like it here and probably will stay here but I’ve been wondering about the difference in the “all” feed when comparing the 2 instances. On feddit.de’s “all” feed I see many more new posts than on dataterm.digital’s “all” feed. (I’m comparing sorted by new)
Can someone explain to me why that is and what’s happening there? Shouldn’t I be seeing the same posts regardless of the instances, given the instance isn’t defederated?
You’ll only see posts from communities that your instance “knows about”. Instances don’t just automatically discover other instances; someone in the instance has to interact with a community before it gets indexed. Most likely, more communities have been indexed by feddit.de than by dataterm.digital. You can improve the situation by searching for and interacting with communities that are missing from the feed.