Unexpected comment behaviour between Mastodon and Lemmy (self.lemmy)

submitted 9 months ago by otl to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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My replies via Mastodon to Lemmy posts don't get distributed as expected. For example:

Original post: https://lemmy.ml/post/11552444
A reply via Lemmy: https://ttrpg.network/comment/4965852
My reply to that: https://hachyderm.io/@otl/111887721960075860

It seems my reply only shows in these Lemmy servers:

lemmy.ml (the server of the group to which the post was made)
lemmy.world (the server of the post's author)
ttrpg.network (the server of the comment's author)

From some other lemmy servers, my comment is not present:

lemmy.sdf.org: https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/8124910
lemmy.one: https://lemmy.one/comment/6912806
aussie.zone: https://aussie.zone/comment/6414209

I expected that my reply would show on any other Lemmy server with subscriptions to !privacy@lemmy.ml. Does that make sense? I'm hoping to help troubleshoot federation like this as I'm super excited about ActivityPub and what it means for the internet! :)

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Federation in general seems like it's been flaky as hell ever since a month or two ago... my guess (especially if you see it on some Lemmy servers and not others) is that it's delayed and will show up eventually.

It's possible that there's some unexpected behavior that leads it to federate some places and not others, but my expectation is that once your comment is on lemmy.ml's server, it's federation delay between the Lemmy servers and nothing to do with you specifically.

this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2024

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