I thought if I subscribed to a community on a different instance, all the participation is the same. However, I have just realised that the comments are different on the communities even though they should be shared imo

Example: https://lemmy.world/c/unresolvedmysteries@lemmy.ml/data_type/Post/sort/Active/page/1

https://lemmy.ml/c/unresolvedmysteries

You can see that the same post for each instance has different comments showing. Then, in fact, participation isn’t the same between communities. Is this a bug or correct?

  • Moderator@lemmy.reckless.dev
    1·
    1 year ago

    I think it’s either a bug or related to server load. I made a post on this community noting the same thing. It’s like instances are not communicating with each other right now.

    I looked at the same post from 4 different instances and got four different results in both comment count and votes.

    From the server it was originally posted on (currently at 9 comments): https://lemmy.ml/post/1244889

    lemmy.world (8 comments): https://lemmy.world/post/112477

    beehaw.org (10 comments): https://beehaw.org/post/542091

    sh.itjust.works (5 comments): https://sh.itjust.works/post/79680

  • balerion@beehaw.org
    0·
    1 year ago

    I’d love to help you figure this out, but your second link takes me to a 502 error.

    Anyway, my guess is that one instance you’re on federates with certain instances, and one does not. So if you’re on instance A and B, A federates with C, but B does not, so from B you won’t see comments from C. But I admittedly don’t know what the differences are between the comment sections you’re seeing, so I could be completely wrong.