• smorks@lemmy.ca
      3·
      3 years ago

      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.

      • Arthur BesseOPA
        2·
        3 years ago

        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.

        • smorks@lemmy.ca
          2·
          3 years ago

          to search for comments you need to get the comment url, and remove the /post/##### part, so it’s basically just https://[lemmy instance]/comment/#####, and search for that.

          • Arthur BesseOPA
            2·
            3 years ago

            thanks, that worked, i made a missing comment appear elsewhere.

            oddly the lemmy.ml/comment/xxx URLs 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. 🤷

    • seahorse
      2·
      3 years ago

      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.