I noticed something that I’m hoping someone could clarify.
When I visit lemmy.ca, and show “all” communities and then compare it to lemmy.world, the results come up totally different… different posts or same posts with wildly different number of comments.
It doesn’t seem to matter which sorting method I use, either.
Even replies to a comment within a post will have more on lemmy.world than if I were viewing it on lemmy.ca.
For example, !nostupidquestions on lemmy.world shows the post “Do you think the guys on the titanic submarine will be rescued?” with 589 upvotes and 474 comments. The same post shows 167 upvotes and 384 comments on lemmy.ca.
I checked the blocked instances between the two, and only junk instances are there, so I know it’s not that.
Any clarity would be appreciated.
There is a bug report on this, a quick summary is they aren’t quite sure what is causing it as of yet. It could be overloaded servers, network issues, or a bug in the software. The developers are aware of it and I assume it’s a problem being worked on, or already fixed for the upcoming 0.18 release.
Cool, so I won’t need to create a separate lemmy.world account to see more content? I was afraid I might have to.
The intended behavior is each instance will have the same content (minus banned users/instances), so once this bug is resolved you should be able to use your lemmy.ca account only.
Right now to get around this bug, it might be good to visit discussions/communities you are interested in directly on their instance as to not miss anything. Personally, this only seems to be happening with discussions on larger instances but this is anecdotal evidence at best.
I’m not too worried if it’s a bug. I was just surprised to see such a vast difference between the two instances.
I appreciate the info, and I’m looking forward to a bright future on Lemmy =)