I prefer to use this instance as my primary, but I’ve noticed a lot of missing comments/votes/etc on posts from other instances. I’ll switch between this account and one on lemmy.world or Lemm.ee and notice that I’m not seeing all the activity. Does anyone know why?
Maybe a syncing issue? Are we lower on the syncing totem pole because were smaller or something? It mostly seems to happen with this account and not others.
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I’ll make a reply sometimes from mastodon, and I don’t know where it goes. Sometimes it shows up in a thread, sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes it’s delayed. I don’t have a good enough grip on this stuff to figure it out exactly, but I suspect it’s a federation issue of some kind.
Getting into the nuts & bolts of how the federation scheme works would probably give some clues, but that’s a lot of work.
I’m still trying to get the hang of it too. I thought I had, but this problem keeps me account hopping sometimes to double-check that my view is accurate.
Someone mentioned language settings, so I’m going to check that out next.