That means you're the first person to subscribe to that community from your instance. Just subscribe to it and everyone from your instance will see the new stuff posted starting from today.
It's just an unfortunate problem with the Fediverse that we have to live with, unless someone is able to solve this issue in the future.
I'm simultaneously posting anime tiddies and chatting with a dude named Allah on the Fediverse. First quarter of the 21st century is pretty solid. Can't complain.
The social media ban for younger kids in Australia is not a good thing. By requiring anyone who wants to access social platforms to provide government ID, you're effectively eliminating online anonymity.
Sure, the justification today might be to "protect the kids". But you're slowly building the infrastructure of a surveillance state. All it'll take is for an authoritarian party to win the next election and your privacy and freedom of expression is over.
The only way to protect children and protect our privacy is if the age verification software is publicly auditable and uses zero-knowledge proofs for age attestation. The website you're accessing must never see anything about you aside from "This user is 16+." And the age verification platform must never be able to keep a log of which websites you've accessed.
But that's just a compromise. If I had the option to choose, I'd rather there be absolutely no age verification, ever.
Remember how it would feel when a post in your favorite niche sub hit /all?
I'm from the anime community. It was not a good thing when it happened around a decade ago lol. It got so bad that the /r/anime mods voluntarily hid us from /r/all for a few years before eventually opening up again.
I also play niche gacha games with fan service, and the general consensus on having outsiders come in is negative. Mainly because the outsiders usually can't tolerate fan service and the developers have to make the game tamer.
But I get what you mean, though. Echo chambers are bad for political-related communities. It's exactly what lead to our current political climate.
I'd rather this type of legislation not even be entertained in Parliament and treated the same way as if someone tried to propose banning oxygen. I'll be writing to my MP tomorrow and I encourage everyone reading this to do the same. If you let them take a centimetre of our privacy, they'll take an entire kilometre.
That means you're the first person to subscribe to that community from your instance. Just subscribe to it and everyone from your instance will see the new stuff posted starting from today.
It's just an unfortunate problem with the Fediverse that we have to live with, unless someone is able to solve this issue in the future.