I have created a community, and made several posts. On one post, I see a comment, and have replied to it. That’s the only comment I can see. However, now a friend of mine has joined my community and he can see lots of comments on many posts (he’s sent me screenshots to prove it). I can’t see any of the comments he can see.
He is on a different instance, (lemmy.world) but that doesn’t seem to be the issue, because the one comment I can see is also from a user on lemmy.world, and the comments my friend can see are from both instances. There are even comments from users on sh.itjust.works that I can’t see either.
What’s going on? Why can’t I see comments on my own community and how do I fix it?
If I can’t resolve it, I will just have to close the community because it’s pointless if I can’t see or respond to anything that anyone else says.
And it’s just occurred to me that I may not even see replies to this, if there are any. … so I may never know the answer…
Dont you need to connect your fediverse by interacting with other communities to get it started to sync? I am likely completely wrong but I vaguely remember something like that had to happen, and some patience after the initial actions.
I haven’t started an instance. I’ve started a single community on sh.itjust.works. I have already been interacting successfully with other communities, it seems to be only the one I made that’s having problems. And I don’t think it’s related to federating, because most of the comments I can’t see are from users on my own instance.
It feels very much like a shadowban, except I know it’s not, because of that one single comment I can see.
Interesting, cant help you so heres to hoping a server admin can help you out.
Im new myself to this whole fediverse thing haha.
This probably has something to do with language settings. Make sure neither of you have deselected “undetermined” as a language option.
I haven’t, but how can I check if the people leaving the comments have/haven’t? And how can I get them to change it, if they have, if I can;t reply to them?
What about your community? Does it have a language setting?
I’m still trying to figure the details of the issue out too tbh. I’ve just found that if I can’t reply to a comment it’s usually fixed by setting it to english.
What comments do you see? Can you maybe send a screenshot so I’ll know if I see the same ones?
Here’s screenshots of your comments on the three threads:
https://i.gyazo.com/205b9d19a2df806831fcb14a57f105f1.png
https://i.gyazo.com/7b797e0322dc0526ad4d4acc68d79a5f.png
https://i.gyazo.com/ba96262ec24fb6679b15ccb2b418e970.png
The fault seems to be limited to certain threads… which are still showing zero comments for me, but maybe not newer ones?
I have no idea then. Have you tried messaging the admin?
I don’t even know who the admins are here.
I’ve passed it along. I’ll let you know if I hear anything.
Thank you!
