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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] 3 points 1 year ago

With Reddit shutting down the APIs this weekend and further unexpected tomfoolery from Elon Musk it has led to rapid growth of the Fediverse, as can be seen here. The bulk of the growth on Lemmy will be at lemmy.world, which was already twice the size of the other ten largest combined, so exerts a large amount of gravitational pull (which may or may not be healthy).

As the folks behind lemmy.world are, I believe, also running mastodon.world and calckey.world, I imagine they've been having a fun weekend. With the systems overloaded some things are going to get a bit messy, I'm afraid.

I personally still find it remarkable that all these even functions at all, but it does.