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Question about Lemmy federation (beehaw.org)
submitted 2 years ago by akkartik@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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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 @binwiederhier@discuss.ntfy.sh, 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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[-] Sal@mander.xyz 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
  • 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.
[-] akkartik@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you!

[-] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] spunkymunky@lemmy.click 3 points 2 years 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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