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Why are communities on Lemmy.ml more full compared to the same on a different Lemmy instance? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by bryan@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, I’m on Lemmy.sdf.org and I joined the Apple@lemmy.ml community. But there are many missing articles and comments. If I browse directly on Lemmy.ml for the same article there ~90% of comments are missing.

https://lemmy.ml/post/1152794 has 26 comments https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/11232 has 0 comments

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[–] Alkalyon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because lemmy.ml is the official instance meaning it was created by the developers of the people who created the backend for lemmy as well so people assume it would be the correct one to join.

Thankfully fediverse doesn't work like that and in a few days I expect users to be spread around in instances more evenly.

[–] Geometric7792@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That doesn't really make sense though - shouldn't comments be federated across all communities?

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They do. However, it's only after federation has been established between two communities.

After a while, these newer communities will be federated in and everyone will be connected.

As lemmy.ml is the oldest community, it also has the most history (as the newer instances don't currently get the history).

This will likely be fixed at some point.

[–] phase_change@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The person you are replying to deleted the comment. That said, as I understand it, comments are federated once someone on a server subscribes. So, not all comments will be federated. However, stuff listed in the comments here would seem to break my understanding of how federation works. I’m very curious to hear the answers.

[–] Geometric7792@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's funny is that comment isn't deleted for me (on https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/t/9220/Why-are-communities-on-Lemmy-ml-more-full-compared-to-the#entry-comment-43401)

[–] phase_change@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Very interesting.