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?

  • @[email protected]
    1•1 year ago

    I’m not 100% sure this is what’s going on here, but maybe…

    Say A, B, and C are instances and A and B federate and B and C federate, but A and C do not. Then, suppose there is a thread on B. If someone comments on it from A and someone else comments from C.

    Again, I’m not 100% sure this is how it works, but maybe A doesn’t get the comment made on C and vice versa. B would get all comments made on A and C, and A and C would get all comments made on B.

    Maybe. Just a thought.