As far as I know, https://startrek.website is the first “small” instance to grow beyond 10k users, and that’s enough to deserve a “BestOf” topic in my books.
Lemmy users should be able to access it by clicking here
I think kbin users have that whole magazine thing and it needs to be a link like this instead??
Yah this makes sense. Just wondering why star trek Mag is incomplete and how long it takes to sync?
When a remote group is first discovered by local user, their instance creates a local space for that group and creates a link to it. On kbin, I think that’s all it cutrently does, though on Lemmy sites they also pull in a few recent posts.
Once a user actually follows a group, though, their instance subscribes to it as if it were an actual magazine subscription. New content gets sent to it, and shared among anyone who follows it, but old content doesn’t, any more than National Geographic sends new subscribers their whole 150 years of back issues.
Older content can get pushed out to newer subscribers if people boost those older posts, though. That would be the equivalent of the publishing world’s re-issuing of an old edition.