Do you mean lemm.ee/post/56789435?scrollToComments=true maybe? Several people in there seem to be complaining about the same thing, but it’s not happening for me on my instance, not sure what’s going on.
Comment on When I sort by "newest" why is the top post a month old?
Necroscope0@lemm.ee 6 days agoThe main feed that pops up when I come to the site? Is that not what they call it here, I am new to Lemmee
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
Necroscope0@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Yup, that is the one. So not something I am doing wrong then just some current oddity with the site. I can live with that, was just curious. Thanks!
otter@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
I think it’s a federation bug. That post is on community.nodebb.org, which isn’t a Lemmy instance but actually a different software.
Which in itself is cool! There are a few projects being worked on right now to make traditional forums compatible with activity pub. The idea being that someday you’ll be able to follow and post in official support forums for things right from your Lemmy account.
But right now, it might be causing some weird federation bug. Maybe the date of the post shows up to Lemmy as sometime in the future and so it’s always the “newest” post (or something similar)?
Necroscope0@lemm.ee 5 days ago
That is cool, I did not even realize that Lemmy can interact with different software that way. It really is such an awesome idea!
mp3@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
My gues sis that the post was submitted with incorrect timestamp, and despite being reverted to the correct one, ot doesn’t seem to be taken i to account correctly in Lemmy. Maybe the post was set far into the future and it’s gonna be stuck there in new until forever 🤣
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I see you were given some confirmation it’s a larger problem. To explain why we needed more details, “lemmy” is not a singular site. You registered on lemm.ee, while I’m on lemmy.world, which are 2 out of dozens of different “instances”. Some other popular ones include lemmy.ml, Midwest.social, and kbin.social. These instances all federated together, meaning they have the ability to view and interact with each other. The “community” (like a subreddit if that’s where you come from) you posted to here is hosted on my home instance, lemmy.world. You’ll also see the term “defederation” used. If two instances constantly fight or, say, an instance creates a constant influx of bad actors, an instance may decide to defederate with that instance. This cuts off that interoperability between the two. There are ways to block them on your own as well, I believe.
On top of that, we’re all using different clients. Some from a web browser, some on various mobile apps such as jerboa, connect, etc.
This means to diagnose your problem (and any future problem), we need info to determine if this is a you-problem, an app problem, and instance problem, or a community problem.
Good luck. Stick around. It’s quiet here compared to wherever you came from, most likely, but you’ll probably find a bunch of the same people over and over. It takes some adjustment.