Rather often, I see a post here with say 5 comments, but I only see one or two under the post. Why is this? Am I perhaps defederated from those posters’ instance?

  • Jon-H558@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Is the thread. on your local instance or a nother (e
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    You are on kbin.social looking at lemmy.world thread) it may be the thread is federated wider than your instance federates

    • Jourei@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      I am on lemmy.world and the post was in this community, so certainly different instance. I can’t find the recent observation anymore so can’t tell where the poster was from.

  • Jourei@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    On a complete derailment, I just noticed my post go from 50 something points to 553. I clicked upvote myself and it went down to 5. As I wrote this message, it went through random numbers and is now sitting at 765. 😖

  • akrz
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    1 year ago

    It’s just because of all the federation and many different servers pinging each other. But honestly the UI needs to more transparently display metrics about this.

  • drascus@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I saw it mentioned somewhere that when you see subscriber counts for a community those counts only reflect the amount of subscribers from your instance. At least that is the way I understood it. I know that’s not related to comments but there seems to be some ways that the federation work that is not great. Could it be that the comments are from an instance that your instance has de-federated from?