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Unexpected comment behaviour between Mastodon and Lemmy (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My replies via Mastodon to Lemmy posts don't get distributed as expected. For example:

Original post: https://lemmy.ml/post/11552444
A reply via Lemmy: https://ttrpg.network/comment/4965852
My reply to that: https://hachyderm.io/@otl/111887721960075860

It seems my reply only shows in these Lemmy servers:

lemmy.ml (the server of the group to which the post was made)
lemmy.world (the server of the post's author)
ttrpg.network (the server of the comment's author)

From some other lemmy servers, my comment is not present:

lemmy.sdf.org: https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/8124910
lemmy.one: https://lemmy.one/comment/6912806
aussie.zone: https://aussie.zone/comment/6414209

I expected that my reply would show on any other Lemmy server with subscriptions to [email protected]. Does that make sense? I'm hoping to help troubleshoot federation like this as I'm super excited about ActivityPub and what it means for the internet! :)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Hey, bit late to this discussion (found it while searching for something) but since you seemed interested in a casual user's pov:

I'm a member of quite a few Lemmy communities that are really small, and I'm very active on Mastodon. So having those small communities in a list feed on Mastodon is really handy since I don't miss anything and can just jump in with a reply on stuff without switching over to Lemmy.

I also post a lot of the same type of stuff to both platforms and sometimes it makes sense to keep that separate, but sometimes with niche interests it's nice to be able to cross-post and get both groups of people chatting together in the comments.

Of course this is a moot point because federation between my Masto instance and Lemmy is currently broken, but it was really great before and I miss it a ton.