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Confused about comments/posts not showing on other instances

Am I not understanding how things are supposed to work, or are things just being weird? I made this post yesterday: https://lemmy.ml/post/1596015

It's about the 4th post down when sorted by New.

  • On lemmy.world it doesn't show at all.
  • On beehaw.org it shows with 1 comment made by another user.
  • On lemmy.ml it shows with that 1 comment plus a second comment I made today.

Is it normal for there to be these differences in the same community when viewed from different instances?

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  • Normal, no, but I’ve been seeing lots of reports of sync issues with both Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world. I think both are a bit overloaded and Lemmy.world is still running an older instance of the software too - for now. There definitely seem to be bugs.

    Edit: just noticed the post you made is on a Beehaw community. Since Beehaw defederated Lemmy.world that is why it doesn’t show there at all! Nothing new from Beehaw will show on Lemmy.world.

  • Lemmy to Lemmy federation of comments and postings is having widespread problems, especially the big 3 servers you mentioned.

    There is an open issue on GitHub: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101

    I've also programmed a tool to compare two servers and compile an automatic list of comments that are missing, here are examples from recent days: https://lemmy.ml/post/1582415