this thread currently has 65 comments here on lemmy.ml but the federated version of it on lemmygrad has only 46.
is this a temporary problem, and/or is something wedged?
this thread currently has 65 comments here on lemmy.ml but the federated version of it on lemmygrad has only 46.
is this a temporary problem, and/or is something wedged?
interesting. i seem to have just now caused that post to finally appear on https://midwest.social/c/theonion (here) by searching for the lemmy URL https://lemmy.ml/post/179689 with midwest.social’s search. (I looked, and it definitely wasn’t there a moment before I searched for it. So I guess searching for a lemmy URL made it fetch it somehow?!)
i’m pretty sure searching for it does force it to be “fetched”. you can do the same with comments. but i don’t know why they’re not being federated automatically.
i made a few more missing posts appear on other instances by searching for them there, but searching for comment links (to missing comments) hasn’t worked for me yet.
to search for comments you need to get the comment url, and remove the
/post/#####part, so it’s basically justhttps://[lemmy instance]/comment/#####, and search for that.thanks, that worked, i made a missing comment appear elsewhere.
oddly the
lemmy.ml/comment/xxxURLs are 404 when fetched in my browser, but it did cause the comment to get federated when i searched for a url like that on another instance just now. 🤷I know searching for communities/posts can cause it to fetch, but it should have at least appeared on midwest.social. It does indeed appear now though, but has less upvotes than on lemmy.ml.