I’ve been spot-checking consistency of replication between servers by looking at the same community on two Lemmy instances, sorting posts by new.

!asklemmy@lemmy.ml is one of the most active communities and people frequently use it incorrectly, asking technical questions about Lemmy instead of “asking the Lemmy community” for their feedback on a topic.

In spot-checking Lemmy servers, it seems that the moderator removal of the posting is only working on the “home” server, Lemmy.ml - and other servers still show the posting in the New sort list (and I assume other sort choices? unverified).

I opened a GitHub issue about the problem: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3535

I also thought this would be a good place to raise the topic. Did anyone recall ever testing and spot-checking that moderation removal of a posting worked on multiple servers before?

Thank you.

  • RoundSparrow@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Another example, beyond the two posts I shared so far on Github, involving 4 servers I spot checked:

    Posting title: “Private instance (Instance cannot be seen unless logged in)”

    1. First server, post origin: https://lemmy.world/post/1159649
    2. Second server, Lemmy.ml which is home to the community, does not list it in New sort.
    3. Third server, listed in New: https://lemm.ee/post/807061
    4. Fourth server, listed in New: https://lemmy.ca/post/1237115

     

    Noteworthy is that lemmy.world shows that @hsl@wayfarershaven.eu commented on the posting about it being off-topic. And that they are a moderator of the community. I am assuming that they removed the posting, which Lemmy.ml reflects (I did not check moderation log). So that now involves a 5th server. It also raises the question of why the moderator comment only appears on the lemmy.world server: https://lemmy.world/comment/968972

    • HSL@wayfarershaven.euEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I suspect this is down to federation. That’s also how I can remove a post but people may still be able to add new comments before the removal has synced across different servers.

      I’ve been wondering why mod comments haven’t been showing up though.