Please make sure you have “undetermined” selected in your list of spoken languages in your lemmy settings in addition to any other languages you speak.
Most lemmy content does not come through with a language tag, and you need to have undermined selected as an option to see that content.
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I’ve noticed that some posts on other instances don’t seem to be retrieving comments. I’m not sure if it’s related to the language issue, though, as I do have both undetermined and english selected in settings. Or maybe it’s just due to servers being slammed b/c of user influx.
A couple of examples (both coffee because that’s just a current hyperfixation)
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I tried logging out and checking the links on blahaj, same result, and I checked some of the instance lists and it doesn’t seem like a defederation thing.
edit Here’s another one at lemmy.world, in this case I replied to the post and then OP replied back to me. Their original post is visible on blahaj but the reply is not, so presumably it can’t be related to that individual user.
edit Okay, so if I take the URL of the comment and search that URL from within blahaj, that makes it appear. Obviously that only helps if I know the comments exists in the first place though.
edit There are also some whole posts that don’t show up without searching the post individually
It’s likely because of instances being slammed along with Lemmy only having, like, a 10 second window where things federate before starting to time out. There are fixes that seem to be in the pipeline but I have no clue when they’ll be released. And if they’ll even fix the problems. And what will happen to all the old un-federated activities afterwards.
Is there any hope for getting old un-federated activities distribuited? This is a major issue on the platform.
Thanks, that makes sense. It would be nice if there was at least a way to prompt the server to refresh comments on a particular post or community.
(I did figure out that you can force it to see a particular comment by searching the URL of that specific comment, which is useful in cases where there’s something particular you want to reply to and you already know that it exists.)