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"@context": [
"https://join-lemmy.org/context.json",
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"
],
"type": "Note",
"id": "https://thelemmy.club/comment/17269487",
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],
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"https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta",
"https://preferred.social/u/freamon"
],
"content": "<p>It provides a better user experience <em>by far</em> though.</p>\n<p>When you’re the first on your instance to subscribe to a foreign lemmy community, your instance only gets 10 posts and no comments or vote info. So you get a nearly useless empty sub that will start filling in from that point as people post new things. Especially frustrating if you were looking for or were linked to a specific thread.</p>\n<p>With this solution your content was already there, waiting for you. And also searches on your instance will return posts and comments from that community greatly increasing discoverability.</p>\n",
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"content": "It provides a better user experience _by far_ though.\n\nWhen you're the first on your instance to subscribe to a foreign lemmy community, your instance only gets 10 posts and no comments or vote info. So you get a nearly useless empty sub that will start filling in from that point as people post new things. Especially frustrating if you were looking for or were linked to a specific thread.\n\nWith this solution your content was already there, waiting for you. And also searches on your instance will return posts and comments from that community greatly increasing discoverability.\n\n",
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},
"published": "2025-03-12T03:02:52.736599Z",
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