• smorksA
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    3 years ago

    i’m pretty sure searching for it does force it to be “fetched”. you can do the same with comments. but i don’t know why they’re not being federated automatically.

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      3 years ago

      i made a few more missing posts appear on other instances by searching for them there, but searching for comment links (to missing comments) hasn’t worked for me yet.

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        3 years ago

        to search for comments you need to get the comment url, and remove the /post/##### part, so it’s basically just https://[lemmy instance]/comment/#####, and search for that.

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          3 years ago

          thanks, that worked, i made a missing comment appear elsewhere.

          oddly the lemmy.ml/comment/xxx URLs are 404 when fetched in my browser, but it did cause the comment to get federated when i searched for a url like that on another instance just now. 🤷