What is the reason for drastically different vote count and number of comments across different instances? Is the issue solved as of today?

ada , 5 months ago

A locked thread from 3 months ago that has been crossposted in to half a dozen groups isn't the best example of how replies and comments federate across the fediverse.

Ramin_HAL9001 , 5 months ago

I have no expertise in how ActivityPub works, but my guess is it works something like this:

You make a post on instance A, you can view it on instance B. People all over the fediverse, instances C through Z are voting on your post.

The venn diagram of other instances with which instance A and instance B federate overlap but are not exactly the same. There are instances federated with instance A not visible to instance B, there are instances federated with instance B not visible to instance A.

The vote count for a post is counted by instance A and B based on which instances with which they federate. That means instance A is counting votes from instances that B cannot see, and instance B is counting votes from instances that A cannot see.

Where the Venn diagrams overlap, both instances will agree on the vote count. But the vote counts coming from instances that they don't both federate with will cause a difference in vote count.

Annoyed_Crabby , 5 months ago

The first link is post from fediverse@lemmy.world, the second link is post from fediverse@lemmy.ml, it's a same post crossposted to communities under different instance.

Microw , 5 months ago

This. It's not the same post, it's two different posts in two different communities.

joeldebruijn , 5 months ago

AFAIK its "by design" meaning an inherent property of the fediverse.

If I dont follow someone or my instance isnt federated with those of other followers we cant see each others comments or likes etc