Ilovethebomb,

I have another account that has it’s home instance as lemmy.world, none of my comments are posting. I think the instance is really struggling at the moment.

luthis,

Is there any way to force a full sync of community or even a single post?

Dave,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

Not that I’m aware of. Hopefully we get these tools with time. But as I understand it federation is basically a push action, the community host instance sends the updates out to all the instances with users subscribed. The instances don’t send a request asking for updates as far as I know.

luthis,

Ah dam. So basically, we are missing all content from before a user subscribes to a community on a different instance?

Dave,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

Something like that. I have heard basically that but if you go look at a new community that no one has subscribed to then it still shows you posts so there must be more to it.

SamC,

I think it syncs a few recent posts, but not the comments when you first subscribe.

But I think there are other ways to get older posts synced?

Hopefully how this works becomes a bit more transparent and is improved over time. It’s a bit confusing right now.

Dave, (edited )
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

Yeah it’s not very clear what’s happening, and when people try to explain it I don’t think it lines up with what we see. These things will get easier over time as new features are added.

Dave,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

I can see two comments from you on each post. Is that what you’re referring to?

Also your account is marked as a bot account, did you want to check your user settings? There should be one setting to say it’s a bot account and one to say you want to see posts from bot accounts.

Whitt,

I’m no longer a bot 🙂

When I check the post I’ve linked above it only has my two comments and a single reply in one thread.

Checking that same post directly on lemmy.world there are 29 comments across 8 threads.

SamC,

Yeah probably because the post hadn’t synced until recently. When that happens not all of the comments get pulled across

Dave, (edited )
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

Yeah, looks like the post is a month old and when I checked earlier there was just one subscriber from lemmy.nz(I guess that’s @Whitt).

Posts and comments from before the first subscriber are generally not federated (I’m not sure the circumstances where they are). Most likely those other comments will never come across.

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