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Missing federated comments on post (self.support)
submitted 2 years ago by jherazob to c/support
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Earlier accidentally opened a post i had answered to, not located on Beehaw, on the original instance. To my surprise it has a lot of comments on the original instance that don't show up here.

Is it that i'm doing something wrong, or is this some kind of actual bug or tech issue?

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[–] anji@lemmy.anji.nl 7 points 2 years ago

I agree it's broken, however YSK this is also a side-effect of the design principles of ActivityPub.

If you use Mastodon you may have noticed boosted posts from people you.. A. don't follow and B from other instances have no replies. This is especially noticeable if you're on a small or personal instance. The root cause is identical to missing posts/comments on Lemmy: Nobody pushed the replies, and Mastodon won't fetch it for you.

Some sort of standardized "History fetching" mechanism would've been nice if it were in the actual spec IMO.