When on lemm.ee, the instance I have an account on, I don’t see comments on a post in another instance (lemmy.world), so I cannot interact with/reply to a comment on that post. When I go to lemmy.world itself and go to that post, I see comments. However, since I don’t have an account on that instance, I cannot interact with that post.

I’m still incredibly new to lemmy/the fediverse/etc etc so please let me know what I’m doing wrong!

Screenshots of instances/comments: https://imgur.com/a/MU3CXFw

  • denton@lemm.eeOPEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I have done this, but it’s pretty buggy.

    If I search the post URL, I get 0 comments. https://imgur.com/a/Ec3GxO0 (Image from the search result so you can see I’m searching the lemmy.world URL as when clicking, it redirects to the lemm.ee URL)

    If I search one specific comment’s URL, I get one comment. https://imgur.com/a/gxIuUIu

    So by this logic I would have to specifically search all comments to get the full content on one post? Doesn’t seem reasonable.

    • TopHat@compuverse.ukEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Sadly, that’s how it currently (seems to?) work(s). It will pull in new comments ever since the first interaction with the instance, however. (So comment 12, 13 etc. should get synced up with your own instance’s view of that post.) I agree it’s far from ideal, however. 😬

      • denton@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        That… is ridiculous. Already, subbing to another instance’s communities is unintuitive.

        1. copy url
        2. go to your own instance
        3. search url
        4. click to go to community
        5. sub
        6. repeat for every single community

        This will never become a reddit alternative if it’s so finnicky!

        • TopHat@compuverse.ukEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’ve definitely experienced some jank with Lemmy at the moment, but at least I’ve gotten used to Federation through Mastodon. I don’t think you need to sub to a community per say to have it pull in changes from posts you responded on or the like. But you do need to subscribe if you want to have some instance’s posts to the one you are currently on. (Though I could be sorely mistaken - I’m still figuring out Lemmy myself)

          • denton@lemm.eeOPEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            Yes, the subscribing part wasn’t related to the problem in this post (my bad), it was just another example of how unfriendly lemmy can be to users.

            But you do need to subscribe if you want to have some instance’s posts to the one you are currently on.

            This was what I was referring to with the subscribing part. It’d be a chore to cultivate your homepage to show content you’re interested in.

            • TopHat@compuverse.ukEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              I fully agree. While I do love the fact we’ve got a self-hostable federated reddit alternative that actually provides an API (kbin doesn’t provide an API sadly), it’s a damn shame this solution definitely has its problems at the moment. Though hopefully this’ll change soon in the future.