I’m trying to subscribe to communities in other instances but they falsely appear empty. It is not a matter of languages as I see some people suggesting. I have tried choosing English as well as Undetermined without success. Other communities in the same instances appear as they should, without any issues. I have tried from different browsers and even without logging in, fresh browser window, with cleared cache, I open Vlemmy, search for those communities without logging in and I get the same issue. Communities belong to different instances, I can access everything through Lemmy.world although said communities are not in Lemmy.world
That may not be VLemmy’s fault. Federation as a whole is having trouble right now, the system is essentially being stress tested. The subscriber count being 0 may reflect the number of VLemmy subscribers, I can’t tell if those counts are local or not. In terms of federation being resolved, I think this is just a case where we have to wait for the admins to come to a solution.
Yeah, sure, I think we can expect federation to be a bit off atm, that’s why we point out any issues to the devs, so they can improve functionalities if that’s something they can do.
If the counts for subscribers are local, I would expect every community of the same instance to have this issue but this is not the case. It’s also strange that some particular instances can federate everything correctly even though they are under extreme stress