In the screenshot I’ve included, you can see that the number of comments for the post is 20+. However, I only see 2 comments when I look at the post.

Is this just a byproduct of federation? I don’t think I’ve blocked any instances yet, but is it possible the comments are from instances blocked my lemmy.world? Also, I use Memmy on iOS; could that be the cause?

Appreciate any insight!

  • @[email protected]
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    I think it must be a federation thing? I have the same problem and would like a definitive answer.

    • Raging LibTargOP
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      Another commenter advised that I add “English” along with “Undetermined” in the language settings for Lemmy. That seems to have done the trick!

    • Raging LibTargOP
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      810 months ago

      Just checked, I left the setting as “Undetermined” as it warns that changing the language will make certain content unavailable.

      • GeekFTW
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        710 months ago

        Change it to English lol. I forget where it was said, but a month or so ago I remember someone saying there had been an issue where if you leave it as Undetermined, it won’t show you most English content.

        • Raging LibTargOP
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          510 months ago

          I think this was the trick! Changed language setting so that “Undetermined” and “English” and comments in this very post appeared that weren’t there before! Thanks so much!

        • Ragdoll X
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          210 months ago

          I just selected all languages so I’d be able to see everything.

    • Nix
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      810 months ago

      This should be removed. We should encourage people from any country/language being able to communicate with eachother and make inline translations easy to setup vs hiding comments

      • @Sethayy
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        310 months ago

        Remove an option? Its by definition optional, and inline translation services are pretty bad usually so a lot of users might not want to use them

        • Nix
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          -110 months ago

          Its actively causing bad user experiences because it’s confusing and also hard to know that it’s causing the issue

    • Raging LibTargOP
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      510 months ago

      Just did this and your comment appeared in my notifications only after doing so! Looks like I’m good now. 😎

  • PP_GIRL_
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    810 months ago

    Same issue with Sync. I’ve always just though it was users who I’ve blocked/blocked me since the fediverse is so small

  • shootwhatsmyname
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    On top of language settings, you can also check if bot accounts are being shown or hidden, because it will hide bot comments and any child comments beneath bot comments too

  • @WhyJiffie
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    Try reloading it once or twice. I usually have to do that to have more than just a few comments show up

  • Atemu
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    410 months ago

    Have you blocked anyone?

    Did you turn off bots in your account settings?

    • Raging LibTargOP
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      110 months ago

      Hmmm. I have blocked two users and two NSFW communities. Hard to imagine that low amount of blocking could be the cause for only seeing 2 out of 20 comments on a given post, but maybe?

  • @PaupersSerenade
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    210 months ago

    I have the same issue with Memmy, but also Voyager (IOS). I had also read a week or so ago a comment insinuating it was a federation issue with Lemmy.world commemts. I noticed the one comment saying they could see em was a .world account.

    • Raging LibTargOP
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      210 months ago

      I followed a suggestion from another commenter here and added English to my language settings a long with “Undetermined”. That fixed it!

    • @[email protected]
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      Using your link I see that I have the problem. I see all 22 comments on that post if I open your lemmy.ca link on browser but if I open it on Sync I am missing like 5 posts.

      Now I need to figure out how to fix this…