I don’t know if this is just me or what, but sometimes I can upvote successfully on posts, but then again sometimes I get an error message stating: “This thread was retrieved via lemmy.world. You’re not logged in there.” When I open Connect for Lemmy, and go to the same post, I can upvote normally. Is this a bug or a feature?

  • pitninja@lemmy.pit.ninjaEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This likely has to do with how your home tab feed is currently set. If it says “All” at the top, it’s showing posts from every single instance added in the app including default instances (if you haven’t deleted them: beehaw, lemmy.world, & lemmy.ml).Thus the post that you’re seeing, even if it exists on your instance as well, might not be the post from your instance, if that makes sense. I definitely found this behavior confusing myself at first and the devs are going to be talking about how this can be improved for new users. If you only use one instance and only ever want to see posts from one instance, feel free to long press your unused instances in the account setup page and remove them.

    • xbhaktapur@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I did that and now any communities I had subscribed to that are outside of lemmy.world say I’m unsubscribed to them. Any workarounds?

    • LossLeader@lemmy.studioEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thank you so much. I didn’t realize we could hold and remove that lemmy.world instance that gets added by default. It totally fixed the issue.

    • Zer0Rank@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Hmm… but, how does it work in another app for the same exact post? That’s what confused me most.

      • pitninja@lemmy.pit.ninjaEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Other apps don’t necessarily let you see posts from instances that you’re not logged into. It’s actually a pretty neat feature in Liftoff once you understand what it’s doing, but it’s definitely confusing for people that aren’t expecting it (and confused me at first too).