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Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless?
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this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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I have my own Lemmy instance running on my home server, but I'm here. "But Bizzle," you may be asking yourself, "why go through all the trouble of configuring your own instance just to wind up on Lemmy.World anyway?"
I'm glad you asked! And the answer is that federation only fetches parent comments. I'm glad Lemmy exists, and I'm going to keep using it, but we need federated sibling comments for this to actually be good, in my opinion.
EDIT: I actually couldn't have been more wrong.
I would be happy if my locally posted comment showed up on lemmy.world at all :-) (If this one does, maybe I was just impatient with the initial sync or so)
EDIT: Nevermind, I was too impatient :-)
I can attest sibling comments are meant to be federated (example thread from another instance: https://lemmy.world/comment/97687), but I was here at the very start of this instance and there were federation issues. Posts not showing, comments not showing on other instances. It's all very new so there may be technical issues.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Did you mean that child comments are not federated?
I don't think that's correct.
Seeing as we're viewing this from many different instances, it certainly sounds like a configuration issue on their side
I think you're right, I may have misinterpreted the documentation. I attached a screenshot below.
So that's why there were no comments when I searched a post from a remote instance. You need to search the comments individually. It's kinda weird design imo.
once you subscribe to a community all new comments and posts get federated, but yeah if you just search for the post then you can't seethe comments unless you search for them
That sounds like a huge oversight, if so.