Yesterday I saw a post about the Reddit IPO and commented on it. The post was on c/World News of Lemmy.World and seemed to just have been posted since it had no comments.
I then kept scrolling as usual and found out that the same exact post with the same title had already appeared on c/Technology of Lemmy.World with lots of comments and votes, so I understood the first one I saw was a repost and this was likely the original post and I decided to write the same comment again.
Now something interesting happened. I use Eternity and see my two identical comments being up or down voted and someone replied to my first comment (and I can see this reply in my inbox), but I cannot access the first post anymore (it says “error refreshing the page”)
Thought the first post had been taken down because perhaps the original poster or mods decided it was a repost, but I woke up this morning and both of my comments keep being voted, so someone must be able to see both posts!
How is this possible?
Edit: fixed grammar
You see the replies in your inbox, not the posts , right?
Yes, exactly. If I click on the reply within my Inbox to go see it within the post, I get the error message
Edit: clarification
Are you sure the posts weren’t deleted by a mod?
I’m not sure about anything, but my answer kept being voted on even if the post was unreachable!
