I’ve been browsing communities in other instances, and I noticed that sometimes not all comments show up when viewing from different instances.

For example, this post on !food@beehaw.org shows having 17 comments when viewed on beehaw, but only 6 when viewed from lemmy.one:

Here are the links to the post:

Beehaw link

lemmy.one link

Is this just a quirk of how federation works or is it specifically a problem on my end?

  • AccountMaker@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Apparently when instances first start communicating with each other, they don’t load all the old comments to prevent unnecessary requests. If you want to see a specific comment that was made before you connected the servers, you can copy the link to that comment and serach it in the search bar of your instance, that will force the server to load it and you’ll be able to interact with it. Hope this helps someone.