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Comments are different between instances for the same community? Is this supposed to happen? (lemmy.world)

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

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I thought if I subscribed to a community on a different instance, all the participation is the same. However, I have just realised that the comments are different on the communities even though they should be shared imo

Example: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]/data_type/Post/sort/Active/page/1

https://lemmy.ml/c/unresolvedmysteries

You can see that the same post for each instance has different comments showing. Then, in fact, participation isn't the same between communities. Is this a bug or correct?

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

It's not really that it's supposed to happen and more that it can't really be helped. Since Lemmy is federated instead of centralized, there is no central server to act as the source of truth. Comments have to be replicated across instances; that's not happening continuously either. So different instances will have different records of community interactions, but they should variously sync, unless a server is blocking content from another server.