I subscribed to communities, but my Lemmy instance receives only a few posts, comments and votes. I can see linked instances, but whether or not they sync data feels hit or miss. I’m not quite sure if this is expected. Does Lemmy have a utility similar to the Matrix federation tester?
- Federation only sets up a channel to exchange data, very little comes across during initial federation.
- Subscription only requests that FUTURE posts/comments/votes/updates get sent to your server. It doesn’t do historical backfill.
If you sub to active communities, new posts will populate in a normal way. You’ll have an incomplete view of existing megaposts that predate your subscription. Click the fedi-link to scope those out on the server that hosts the community. You won’t be able to vote/reply, but you can see what’s there.
Within a few days, the vast majority of posts will be fully fleshed out. Try browsing by new in the meantime, you’ll see more posts that we created after your subscription landed, and spend less time in ghost-town posts where you’re missing all the comments.
Oh ok. Thanks for the info!
I’m also curious, with my new instance, sometimes it seems like we’re receiving the content we should be, other times not so much.
I looked at your instance and it isn’t showing the other comments. https://lemmy.pro/post/1354
This is comment #15.
Are you on a private instance? It can take a long while for your instance to catch up to current stuff.
As far as testing federation… you posted to lemmy.ml from your instance… federation is working :)
Something is seriously wrong. It’s been hours and I looked at 7 or 8 instances, nobody has a complete copy. Your instance only shows your own comment: https://lemmy.saik0.com/post/4283
The comment you are reading is comment #14 on lemmy.ml
Well it’s possible that an instance blocks other instances. This also includes things like firewalls and proxy services. I for instance block all Russian and Chinese ip addresses outright. I want nothing to do with either of those countries from a web perspective. It’s possible that on their instance they’re blocking my instance, or IP so it’s not quite populating properly. There’s a lot that can go wrong… Doesn’t help that lemmy.ml is getting HAMMERED recently.
I don’t see all the comments yet on your home Instance either. https://lemmy.haigner.me/post/8
At lemmy.ml - the “owner” of this community, I am now creating the 5th comment (you are reading it).
Ok, so this at least gives me confidence that the issues I’m seeing around federation may not just be me. One issue I’m seeing is that I’m not confident my comments are appearing on other instances/ or that I’m seeing comments from other instances.
@fedora, do you see this comment?
I can see your comment.
