Federation not working properly?
I subscribed to communities, but my Lemmy instance receives only a few posts, comments and votes. I can see linked instances, but whether or not they sync data feels hit or miss. I'm not quite sure if this is expected. Does Lemmy have a utility similar to the Matrix federation tester?
The instance might be very busy and it won’t sync older content from before you subscribed.
Your comment made it into lemmy.ml fine, but it seems outbound isn't getting to you very well. Your comment was the 9th comment on this posting, the one you are reading is number 10. Your home sever posting: https://lemmy.wtf/post/1021
Edit: the lemmy.ml posting with 10 total comments currently is here: https://lemmy.ml/post/1239920
I don't see all the comments yet on your home Instance either. https://lemmy.haigner.me/post/8
At lemmy.ml - the "owner" of this community, I am now creating the 5th comment (you are reading it).
This is now comment #11 on this posting. Another server to look at: https://programming.dev/post/29631
If you sub to active communities, new posts will populate in a normal way. You'll have an incomplete view of existing megaposts that predate your subscription. Click the fedi-link to scope those out on the server that hosts the community. You won't be able to vote/reply, but you can see what's there.
Within a few days, the vast majority of posts will be fully fleshed out. Try browsing by new in the meantime, you'll see more posts that we created after your subscription landed, and spend less time in ghost-town posts where you're missing all the comments.
I'm also curious, with my new instance, sometimes it seems like we're receiving the content we should be, other times not so much.
I looked at your instance and it isn't showing the other comments. https://lemmy.pro/post/1354
This is comment #15.
Are you on a private instance? It can take a long while for your instance to catch up to current stuff.
As far as testing federation... you posted to lemmy.ml from your instance... federation is working :)
Something is seriously wrong. It's been hours and I looked at 7 or 8 instances, nobody has a complete copy. Your instance only shows your own comment: https://lemmy.saik0.com/post/4283
The comment you are reading is comment #14 on lemmy.ml