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
    2·
    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

    • 0x1C3B00DA@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m not sure about this particular post, but its possible for this to happen.

      (This is how the microblogging sector works, so parts of this could be wrong) Imagine a post is made at !example@lemmy.ml and that community is followed by users on lemmy.world and lemmy.one. The post is delivered to each of those servers but comments are not. So if user@lemmy.world comments on the post, the post will be visible on lemmy.world (because they obviously have a copy of the comment since it was made there) and lemmy.ml (lemmy.world has to send the comment there since that’s where the post is from). lemmy.one won’t know anything about that comment