this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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Just to add... It is really not true to be told it doesn't matter what instance I'm on when in fact it seems that it really does matter if I'm interesting in participating in comments (or just reading them).
Well, you CAN participate, subscribe and read the community of another instance. You don't have to be part of the other instance to do so.
Just make sure you are browsing / searching all and not just local.
I am reading and writing this from kbin and not even Lemmy btw.
Iβm aware of how it should work. But click the two links above.
Since I originally posted this thread only 3 comments are newly visible on my local fedi while the origin fedi (Lemmy.ml) still has 26 comments. So it took over a day to sync 3 comments made days ago? π€¨
Whatβs frustrating is not all communities are this out of sync. AskLemmy is staying pretty close to immediately synced. Other communities (on same origin server) can be more behind.
Scope out this comment thread and come back tomorrow, things will look less funky: https://lemmy.world/comment/22210
It's unfortunate that the federation replication is most weird when you're new, disoriented, and most susceptible to getting confused. But once you've been subbed for a day or two you'll have all the same comments everyone else does. It would be cool if a bit more back-catalog of comments was fetched, but it's early days and not everything is perfect.
If you are the first to subscribe to one from another region, it takes a while for comments to sync. Once it does, you can read and comment to your heart's content.
It doesn't take a while for comments to sync. Comments from before the first user subscribes simply do not sync.
Understood. The first user to subscribe may see it take a whole for the comments to sync.
That was my experience.