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Why do comments differ across instances? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If I visit a community from Feddit and then another instance, the comments often differ. I understand there are some issues with defederation between some instances, but this doesn't seem related to that.

For example, here's the post-race discussion on the Formula 1 community on Feddit: https://feddit.uk/post/320484

And then the same discussion on lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/950479

I don't understand why a significant number of comments aren't visible on Feddit.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I should add that I thought being on a smaller instance like Feddit would avoid some of the defederation problems compared to being on lemmy.world or beehaw, so it's weird to me that there are fewer comments on Feddit than on lemmy.world.

Looking closer at the comments on the F1 post, it seems that the missing comments are from lemmy.world users. Has Feddit defedrated from lemmy.world? Did I miss that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@tom@[email protected], the admin, has said that he'll try and keep the list of defederated instances as small as possible and it is likely to be the worst offenders for bots, not a big beast like lemmy.world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's what db0 said, so if lemmy.world posts were to stop reaching feddit.uk entirely it might suggest lemmy.world defederating from feddit.uk (not the other way around). That's not what's happening here though as we're not in the blocked list of instances on that domain.