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How to "get posts into Piefed"? (piefed.social)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not sure of the right words for what I mean. I'm still new to the Fediverse and even newer to PieFed.

I'm now 99% of the time in PieFed (my instance: piefed.social ) as opposed to Lemmy. Often I'll visit a community and see zero or almost zero posts. But if I open the same community in Lemmy (my instance: lemmy.ca) there are loads of posts.

An example I just noticed: [email protected]

Piefed.social: 2 posts.
Lemmy.ca: 141 posts.

Is there a way to get those missing posts into Piefed?
All of them at once (not just one at a time)?
Can an ordinary user like me do it?

Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (13 children)

As mentioned, if you subscribe to the community, everything going forward will federate over just fine. If there are specific posts you want to force piefed to fetch for you, then you can do so.

On the sidebar for the community, under where the mods are listed, select "Retrieve a post from the original server." That let's you pop in a link to the post from the lemmy server and it will make piefed bring it over. It won't bring the comments though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (12 children)

Thanks for the info.

Sad to hear so much content becomes inaccessible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Just one of the limitations of the fediverse as it exists today. FWIW, lemmy works the exact same way. In its case, you pop in the url of a post you want to fetch in its search bar and it will find it and bring it over. When I have seen people confused about lemmy/mbin/piefed in the past, federation weirdness like this is one of the primary pain points.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

It won't bring the comments though.

FYI, you can use the same feature to bring the comments one by one. Painful, but possible

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