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.

  • FreemanEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    I haven’t noticed it happening. But haven’t checked much.

    What I have noticed is that some of the overloaded and larger instances can be slow…to post comments….to subscribe to…to post threads on etc. especially from a separate federated instance.

    Lemmy.world is easily one I have noticed along with lemmy.ml and occasionally…beehaw (but much less so).

    My guess is that in general those instances may be slow to sync/update data or respond.

    • chiisanaAEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      I’m also seeing this issue on the two instances you’ve mentioned. I’m not sure if it is just an overloaded issue, or if there’s more fundamental issue with the way I’m setting things up. One way around it is if I see a comment I really want to interact out of my own instance, I can copy the link from the fediverse icon, and then search for it. Then the comment (along with its parents) will pop up on my instance eventually. Not idea, as I’d still have to venture out of my own instance to discover the said comment chain, but at least it provides a way to interact, for now.

      • FreemanEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        I would just give it time. I think those instances have some scaling issues and things take time to sync.

        Do you have other users on your instance?

        I noticed it took a day or two to “catch up” as I added and federated with new communities on these instances.

        Again, I haven’t really dug in. They have seemed okay (I do have accounts on those instances too). It seems once everything is “caught up” and it’s just incremental it goes smoother.

        But are you seeing any resource constraints on your instance? Like cpu or ram?

        • chiisanaAEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          All by myself. Plenty of room for activity. We’ll see if it catches up or just end up creating a larger divergence! And yeah, I do have account on lemmy.world as well, so it’s just extra song and dance for now.

          • FreemanEnglish
            3•2 years 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.

              • chiisanaA
                1•2 years ago

                I’m not sure what you mean by pull instances. I’m really brand spanking new at this. Sorry!

              • Freeman
                1•2 years ago

                Head to https://lemmyverse.net and click the Home button at the top right and type in the URL of your instance.

                Flip from instance to community at the top… Then you can click on a community name and open it in a new tab

                Heres one as an example

                If you get a 404 like this you havent loaded/synced it yet.

                So you need to go to your instance search and copy the !link below it into search Like so.

                Mash the search button a few times and the community will show up. Some of the isntances are overloaded and slow as hell though. So be patient. Sometimes I have to change the search filter from all to community and back.

                Now the community will show up in your instance and slowly start syncing. Note the 0 Comments on everything. The syncing is slow right now.

                Also for kbin instances (ie: kbin.social and fedia.io), The ! format doesnt seem to work.

                For those I have to just search the full URL. Like so.

            • chiisanaAEnglish
              1•2 years ago

              Yeah, there are ways around the de-sync (albeit super manual) for now, so I’m just waiting and seeing for the time being :)