Why is a post I made to lemmy.world/c/therewasanattempt showing up in kbin.social/m/random? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I made this post a few hours ago:

https://lemmy.world/post/136314

Later when browsing kbin.social, I found this on the /m/random feed:

https://kbin.social/m/random/t/19074/There-was-an-attempt-to-join-the-Reddit-blackout

It links to my user, but has no link to the original post. Just trying to figure out what's going on with this.

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[-] admin@honeyhive-u4873.vm.elestio.app 12 points 1 year ago

Federation is not perfect between kbin and lemmy. On kbin instances, if the server pulls some federated content that it isn’t quite sure what to do with, it drops it into m/random. Same thing happens if it’s missing any sort of meta data AFAIK

[-] Rhaedas@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Would it resort it into the original posted area if it later grabs the metadata, or is the push a one time thing?

[-] admin@honeyhive-u4873.vm.elestio.app 2 points 1 year ago

AFAIK it doesn’t go back and update old posts. So if the connection is fixed and the bridge between these two services is rock solid, everything before that won’t be changed. It will only affect future posts.