You can only reply to messages by using the instance you have joined. Copy the post's or comment's URL and search that in the instance of your account. Then it will start detecting it and allow you to respond to that instance's content.
I have done this, but it's pretty buggy.
If I search the post URL, I get 0 comments. https://imgur.com/a/Ec3GxO0 (Image from the search result so you can see I'm searching the lemmy.world URL as when clicking, it redirects to the lemm.ee URL)
If I search one specific comment's URL, I get one comment. https://imgur.com/a/gxIuUIu (The post is up to 11 comments.)
So by this logic I would have to specifically search all comments to get the full content on one post? Doesn't seem reasonable.
Sadly, that's how it currently (seems to?) work(s). It will pull in new comments ever since the first interaction with the instance, however. (So comment 12, 13 etc. should get synced up with your own instance's view of that post.) I agree it's far from ideal, however. 😬
That...... is ridiculous. Already, subbing to another instance's communities is unintuitive.
This will never become a reddit alternative if it's so finnicky!
I've definitely experienced some jank with Lemmy at the moment, but at least I've gotten used to Federation through Mastodon. I don't think you need to sub to a community per say to have it pull in changes from posts you responded on or the like. But you do need to subscribe if you want to have some instance's posts to the one you are currently on. (Though I could be sorely mistaken - I'm still figuring out Lemmy myself)
Yes, the subscribing part wasn't related to the problem in this post (my bad), it was just another example of how unfriendly lemmy can be to users.
But you do need to subscribe if you want to have some instance’s posts to the one you are currently on.
This was what I was referring to with the subscribing part. It'd be a chore to cultivate your homepage to show content you're interested in.
I fully agree. While I do love the fact we've got a self-hostable federated reddit alternative that actually provides an API (kbin doesn't provide an API sadly), it's a damn shame this solution definitely has its problems at the moment. Though hopefully this'll change soon in the future.
🤞🏼!
Same thing happened to me, don't know how it exactly works. Maybe you need at least 1 person from our server to have interacted with this community before we pull updates?
Probably one instance blocked other one, or one instance is not configured correctly.
Is lemm.ee new? You will only pull in comments and posts on stuff that was posted after your instance was created. Not only that but I think it also only pulls in content from communities once a user subscribed to it - so if you newly subscribed to a community, it will pull in a few recent posts IIRC. But if you find an older post it won’t grab the comments. I think
Can confirm. On my own instance I stood up yesterday and seeing that behavior.
lemm.ee is about a day old I think (based on posts). the post I'm trying to interact with is 3h old, and I just subbed to the community about 20 mins ago. so does that mean I just have to wait and eventually the content will come through or it'll never come through?
I don’t think it will come through unless it’s forced to somehow. For example, if someone tagged you in a reply in a comment on that post.
Damn, that really sucks
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