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Why is there a discrepancy in the number of comments between the same thread on different instances? And other fediverse confusion. in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can click "Instances" at the bottom of the page on lemm.ee to see what lemm.ee has blocked. But I don't know how to tell what instances have blocked lemm.ee.

Why is there a discrepancy in the number of comments between the same thread on different instances? And other fediverse confusion. in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Thanks, this might be on to something because I don't see a sh.itjust.works post on the lemm.ee version but I know beehaw defederated from them, and the community is a beehaw community. Maybe lemm.ee is pulling from beehaw.

But I don't think it fully explains the situation. Here's the post on beehaw:

https://beehaw.org/post/528754

For me that shows 17 comments, and I only see 13 on lemm.ee. But lemm.ee is defederated from fewer instances than beehaw, so what could explain that?

Edit: is it possible lemm.ee is simply not aware of all the instances?

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Why is there a discrepancy in the number of comments between the same thread on different instances? And other fediverse confusion. (lemm.ee)
 

(Please correct any misunderstandings below.) From my limited understanding of the fediverse, for each thread that exists, every instance will host its own version of it. This instance-specific version will collect comments left from users from all instances in the "world" (whatever that means here). The exception is if instances block other ones.

But what about this random thread:

https://sopuli.xyz/post/683221

https://lemm.ee/post/30817

The first is the original (which is confusingly posted in a community at Beehaw, but I believe the original is at sopuli.xyz because the user is registered there). The second is the version on lemm.ee. Why do I see 13 comments for lemm.ee and 18 for sopuli.xyz? One comment that I do not see on lemm.ee is by a user on sh.itjust.works. This is not a blocked instance. Is it because lemm.ee needs to pull from all instances periodically, and this is just a cached version? If so, how often are these updates, and is there any way to see a timestamp of the cache for an individual post?