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?

  • JurassicPorkEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I came here to ask this exact question… I think I may see what’s going on, from me looking at posts in was looking at being logged in Lemmy via Lemmy.one, and not being logged in on a web browser… Comments I noticed that were not showing on my logged in Lemmy.one session, were from individuals coming from instances that are blocked by lemmyone, like lemmygrad.ml or something along those lines… Someone correct me if I’m wrong? If so I wish that was something that would be up to the end user in the future

    • sw4nkyOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Since lemmy.one blocks lemmygrad, we aren’t able to see any comments from those users, even if they post in unblocked instances like lemmy.ml? If that’s true then I’m not sure I really like that…

      But it seems like my problem is different since the comments I can’t see are from beehaw.org users, which lemmy.one doesn’t block. Perhaps it’s just having trouble fetching older comments, since newer posts and comments seem to load correctly.

      • JurassicPorkEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Very interesting, hoping someone will see your post here and have some good insight… I too would not like it if we don’t see comments from blocked instances, feel like not seeing the whole picture when reading comments… But the one you pointed out does seem different, hopefully over time, things smooth out over here, and all comments will show no matter which instance you are coming from

  • AccountMaker@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m having the same issue. I can’t even see the comments below this post when viewing it from the slrpnk instance.

    • AccountMaker@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      1 year 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.

    • sw4nkyOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Under the communities tab, you should be able to click “All” to browse communities from other instances. Some communities might not show up if no one from lemmy.one has joined them yet