Hi everyone. I have found many ghost comments in posts. Like one of the posts has 300+ upvotes and 28 comments but when I opened it, there were no comments. I tried different Lemmy apps and it’s the same in all of them. Which leads me to believe that it has something to do with defederation done by Lemmy.ml. Which instance has all contents readable?
Last Lemmy version had federation issues - the current one (0.19.2) supposedly fixed them. New threads should be populating correctly now, maybe give it a couple of days and check again?
If you do want to switch, the instance I’m on only blocks pornlemmy.com, ds9.lemmy.ml, voyager.lemmy.ml and enterprise.lemmy.ml: https://reddthat.com/instances
Make sure you go to Settings and select any languages you want to see as well as Undetermined - I had a similar issue which was fixed by doing this.
If that’s not it, it may be a delay in comments federating if it’s a community you just recently subscribed to, or there could be federation issues. If the post is on an instance that’s defederated with yours, I don’t think it would show up at all, unless the defederation happened after it was made.
You can check who an instance has defederated with by checking the Instances link at the bottom of the mane page (or adding /instances after the URL). There’s also a tool to see what other instances have defederated with a particular one here: https://defed.xyz/
I think lemm.ee is least defederated instance
Currently, the big problem with federation is that some instances are running newer software than others. Causes lag and other weird problems.
I don’t think there’s any single instance that hasn’t either defederated from someone or been defederated.
The more lenient ones I’ve tried are midwest.social and lemm.ee
I had this issue. Go to your lemmy login settings. If your language is set to undetermined, try adding english. That fixed it for me.
I think Lemmy.today doesn’t defederate.
