Hello,
I've come across this post: https://lemmy.world/post/13320356
But when I view the same post on this instance, all comments are missing, and the score is -1 instead of -161: https://piefed.world/post/139706
Is this some sort of bug?
Hello,
I've come across this post: https://lemmy.world/post/13320356
But when I view the same post on this instance, all comments are missing, and the score is -1 instead of -161: https://piefed.world/post/139706
Is this some sort of bug?
3 Comments
Eldritch@piefed.world · 6 pts · 19h
Not a bug but a feature of how the system works. That post came out years before piefed.world was a thing. New instances don't auto ingest everything from every instance they are peered with that was ever posted.
Chances are, you may have been the first person to visit that post from PW. Doing that synchronized the basic post but not all the comments. At least not immediately. I'm not clear if it will do it later now that you've accessed it. But typically an instance doesn't synchronize content its users aren't accessing. Otherwise all instances would quickly balloon up to a size unmanageable by most groups.
kazerniel@piefed.world · 5 pts · 19h
Thanks for the info :)
Eldritch@piefed.world · 4 pts · 18h
It takes some getting used to. I moderate a few communities on LW. When I made my account on pw. It took the server a while to find them and when it did the post list was incomplete and a lot of comments were missing. I believe at this point though I think every post and comment has synchronized. Since I am subscribed to it it polls it everyday for new content and comments.