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New instance and community histories question

This is probably more of a fundamental question on federation, but in the scenario that you bring online a new piefed instance with the intention of opening it for public registrations, what's the deal on remote communities history? From what I read I think it goes something like this:

  • the new instance will only make available content it has obtained by federation since it went live
  • end user makes an account, adds a community, and only sees what's been obtained via federation since the instance went live
  • if they really really want to engage with a post from the time before the instance went live they need to get the original post url from the source and search it; this allows the instance to pull in that specific post and after that the user can interact with it as normal.

Is that about it? I just want to make sure there aren't any options for bulk community post imports. I've been messing with getting an instance stood up and was initially surprised at how empty things are after the bulk community import; but after reading around a bit I'm arriving at the (hopefully correct) understanding that a new instance will just need to be up and federating for a while to be an instance that will be useful for browsing.

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