I do the majority of my Lemmy use on my own personal instance, and I’ve noticed that some threads are missing comments, some large threads, even large quantities of them. Now, I’m not talking about comments not being present when you first subscribe/discover a community to your instance, in this case, I noticed it with a lemmy.world thread that popped up less than a day ago, very well after I subscribed.

At the time of writing, that thread has 361 comments. When I view the same thread on my instance, I can see 118, that’s a large swathe of missing content for just one thread. I can use the search feature to forcibly resolve a particular comment to my instance and reply to it, but that defeats a lot of the purpose behind having my own instance.

So has anyone else noticed something similar happening? I know my instance hasn’t gone down since I created it, so it couldn’t be that.

  • Freeman@lemmy.pubEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Oh I see your account is only 14 hours old. Yeah I would give it another 24-36 hours to do pulls and look then.

    Everytime I add a community I start with all the links and all have 0 comments. Then after a while they sync up. I used fediverse.net to just start pulling all sorts of communities. But at this point it seems okay. My instance has been up for a few days now.

    New instances are popping up all over so those bigger ones have a lot of servers syncing with them.