many comments are not getting federated

@smorks@lemmy.ca

i’m seeing this on my instance as well. as of right now, for this post:

https://lemmy.ml/post/179265 - 5 comments
https://lemmy.ca/post/81014 - 2 comments

not sure if it’s related or not, but just going through my logs, i’m seeing a few warnings similar to this:

lemmy-lemmy-1  | 2022-02-23T09:59:53.127759Z  WARN Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request: lemmy_server::root_span_builder: Header is expired
lemmy-lemmy-1  |    0: lemmy_apub::http::receive_activity
lemmy-lemmy-1  |              at crates/apub/src/http/mod.rs:78
lemmy-lemmy-1  |    1: lemmy_apub::http::shared_inbox
lemmy-lemmy-1  |              at crates/apub/src/http/mod.rs:40
lemmy-lemmy-1  |    2: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request
lemmy-lemmy-1  |            with http.method=POST http.scheme="http" http.host=lemmy.ca http.target=/inbox otel.kind="server" request_id=c035e7c0-e8bd-4be0-8aad-34188ca2a875 http.status_code=400 otel.status_code="OK"

a few days ago i was having issues where no comments seemed to be coming over from other instances, but i realized that i forgot to setup time syncing on my server, so i’m guessing my server time was off by more than 10 seconds which was causes federation to not work, according to the docs. but since i got the time sync working, most comments seem to be working, but not all?

@seahorse@lemmy.ml

The post @cypherpunks@lemmy.ml made to !theonion@midwest.social doesn’t show up to users on midwest.social, but shows up fine on lemmy.ml.

Arthur Besse

interesting. i seem to have just now caused that post to finally appear on https://midwest.social/c/theonion (here) by searching for the lemmy URL https://lemmy.ml/post/179689 with midwest.social’s search. (I looked, and it definitely wasn’t there a moment before I searched for it. So I guess searching for a lemmy URL made it fetch it somehow?!)

@seahorse@lemmy.ml

I know searching for communities/posts can cause it to fetch, but it should have at least appeared on midwest.social. It does indeed appear now though, but has less upvotes than on lemmy.ml.

@smorks@lemmy.ca

i’m pretty sure searching for it does force it to be “fetched”. you can do the same with comments. but i don’t know why they’re not being federated automatically.

Arthur Besse

i made a few more missing posts appear on other instances by searching for them there, but searching for comment links (to missing comments) hasn’t worked for me yet.

@smorks@lemmy.ca

to search for comments you need to get the comment url, and remove the /post/##### part, so it’s basically just https://[lemmy instance]/comment/#####, and search for that.

Arthur Besse

thanks, that worked, i made a missing comment appear elsewhere.

oddly the lemmy.ml/comment/xxx URLs are 404 when fetched in my browser, but it did cause the comment to get federated when i searched for a url like that on another instance just now. 🤷

Dessalines

Its because lemmygrad has likely banned some of the pro-NATO users on this instance, so their comments won’t get federated.

@seahorse@lemmy.ml

I notice this with my instance as well.

many comments are not getting federated

many comments are not getting federated

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