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I understand how instances that don't federate with another instance won't show content, but I've checked a bunch of instances. Could it be that beehaw, lemmy.one, reddthat, lemm.ee, and feddit.de have all defederated from lemmy.world? They all have a different mix of content
Your confusion is warranted and I don't have a good answer.
That's kind of the issue. Everyone's vision of content in the fediverse is being filtered by their isntance, and most critically, it's being done in a non-transparent way. Looking at post from beehaw, if you didn't know any better, you'd have no idea perfectly decent comments are being hidden for no reason. Extrapolate that accross multiple instances each with different other instances defederated, and its just creating endless confusion and fracturing the social aspect of a social network.
Ah it didn't occur to me that mods at various instances may be removing individual comments. Can an instance moderate the individual thread comments of a community from another instance? I was thinking that federating with another instance meant all that instance's threads and comments would be available to your users in turn. If that's not the case, then the only way for a user to be sure to get all of a community's content is view it from that community's home server
I agree. Unfortunately this is a do or die problem I think. Either they find a way to bring these communities together or the fediverse remains fractured and will never pick up steam. I'm over reddit, but I long term there's no way I'm checking 5 identically named communities from 5 different points of view to try to put comment chains together...
You're talking about different issues I think. What OP mentioned is inconsistency with one community being seen across different instances.
Right, so if I can see A and C from my vantage, but from A I can see ABC, and from C I can see ACD, then I have to view the same chain of replies from several different vantage points to get the whole conversation.
The inconsistency is that you can't see ABCD in a comment chain from every vantage point.
Imagine if Discord was like that... it'd have folded a day after it released lol.
I think the solution is for federation to be bilateral. If A defederates from B then A cannot see a B article and B cannot see an A article. No more fragmented comments, all comments are sent to the server the post was made on, and read from there as well. This half-copy sometimes-delayed fragmentation is just insanity even at this small of a scale, and I don't see a way to scale it without the house of cards falling.
That sounds honestly like something that the Zuckaverga would propose. It only benefits the largest instances, and basically kills the smallest ones and ones that are intended to function as safe spaces.
High volumes of posts, low server bandwidth, or an instance with too few worker processes can just slow down the syncing process.