The app was updated last week and that seems to have fixed the issues for me at least. It's pretty bleeding edge so makes sense that there's some teething. I'm just happy that there's some interest in the non Lemmy side of things over here in the threadiverse.
Thanks Jerry for your assistance last month!
I am seeing a 500 error when trying to login using Interstellar a new kbin/mbin app in development.
Trying to browse fedia without logging in on the app throws a generic something went wrong error.
They confirmed recently in their GitHub that they do support mbin and kbin.melroy.org works. login and in guest mode.
I can throw up a screenshot as soon as I figure out how to add an image.
Remote magazines only get new posts from the point in time when they are created locally. It won't pull old posts off the originating server.
~~Update: Maybe not. I thought that's how it works but I see content in the Florida one. Curious. I don't know then. ¯\(ツ)/¯~~
Update 2: comment from e-five could explain how old posts show up on new communities.
Pixelfed's dansup is working on a federated short video platform called loops. It will be unfortunate if they end up with a naming overlap, especially if meta decides to be all aggressive with trademarks, even though this other project was announced months ago. I don't think dansup has a crack team of lawyers ready at his fingertips.