Ok, this is a weird problem I’ve had happened twice now. I make a post (one was to a kbin magazine, one to a lemmy community), and I’ll get notifications that there are comments. But when I go to the post to look at them, it will say “5 comments” but show none of them and say there are no comments. But, if I log out, I can see the comments. If I log back in, they’re gone. I’ve tried in different browsers (Safari and Firefox) and had the same issue.
If it was once, I’d think it was a fluke, but it’s twice now, and on different federated sites.
Check out https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/1019 to see if it’s similar to what other people have posted about recently: tl;dr blocking domains appears to filter out posts / comments even when those domains are not involved in the post. I’ll repost what I put in one of the threads:
If posts are disappearing when you’re logged in but not when logged out, it should be something like that: either a language filter, federation turned off, or a blocked community you might not expect filtering it out. You can double check by unblocking domains/magazines to see if any of them return comments, though that might be troublesome with many blocked.
Where can I check to see what communities I have blocked? I’ve got a handful at most blocked, but I don’t remember what they are.
My language filtering is set to use English and Japanese, and federation is on. This post is set for English, so it should come through, but I’m having the issue on this post (I had to cludge it to be able to both see your comment and reply - copy the link to a browser I wasn’t logged into, click on reply from there, then log in).
That got it! Looks like it was the exploding-heads domain, which was actually the only one I had blocked.
That is a truly bizarre issue. Hopefully they can get it fixed.
Not sure if it is a coincidence, but that is the same domain I had blocked as well - unblocking fixed the issue for me too.
And for reference, the issue happened to me twice when posting to this specific magazine, and once when posting to a community on Lemmy. I’ve posted to that community a lot, but it only happened when I was posting an image, not a link - all my link posts have been completely fine. And here, I was making a new thread, not posting links. So links are ok, but posting threads/images (the image was uploaded to kbin) might be part of the issue?
Do you mind linking me the image thread if you can find it?
Not at all! Here it is: https://kbin.social/m/baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world/t/359531/Well-that-sadly-didn-t-take-long
And here is the other post to this magazine where I had the same thing happen. You can see me post in the comments about not seeing anything, as well. I figured it was just a fluke that time.
https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/339340/Weird-moderation-issue-across-sites
Thanks; it at least appears to match the pattern I’ve just updated the issue with, which is posts with no domain shown in parentheses next to the title get filtered out by any domain block at all, regardless of what it is. I assumed you could only achieve this with text posts but it’s good to know it’s possible with image posts as well
This was how this post looks to me (I switched to my iPad because it’s in English and to test it on a different device)
For reference.
Not logged in:
Logged in:
…and in a massive fit of irony, I’m not seeing my comments here. It’s telling me “No comments” while displaying a count of 2. 🫠
