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Question about Lemmy federation (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I noticed something today and wanted to get a gut check from people more knowledgeable than me before I file a bug, etc.

https://beehaw.org/post/579167 (A) is the same thread as https://programming.dev/post/50696 (B), but for me (account on beehaw.org) there are comments upstream that aren't in my local view. For example, searching B for 'ideas' brings up the nice comment https://programming.dev/comment/182817 by @[email protected], but nothing at A. What's more, if I try to copy the URL, https://beehaw.org/comment/182817 seems to lead to an unrelated comment.

Does this seem like expected behavior, or related to recent scaling issues, or an unrelated bug?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The comment thread began with a user in lemmy.world, and the instance was defederated from beehaw, so that comment and sub-comments were not fetched
The 'comment ID' is not shared by different instances, so each instance will assign every comment its own ID.
If you want to fetch the comment from a third instance, you would need to click the colorful 'fedisymbol' to get the original link, which is the one from the instance that the original user lives in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a bug. Not sure if it'll get fixed anytime soon, though... the guy who runs my instance explained it to me here: https://lemm.ee/comment/171585

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Syncing of comments seems to be... sketchy. So many things can cause it to not function, or not appear in a consistent manner. Definitely something that will need improving over time for regular users to be able to understand.

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