Question is all there in the title. No matter which way I try to sort the feed it seems to be entirely random instead.
When you sort what by “newest”?
When I sort by "newest" why is the top post a month old?
Submitted 16 hours ago by Necroscope0@lemm.ee to [deleted]
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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
Necroscope0@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
The main feed that pops up when I come to the site? Is that not what they call it here, I am new to Lemmee
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 11 hours 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.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
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.
catharso@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
maybe it’s a post that has been stickied by a mod?
Necroscope0@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
The main feed, sorry I thought I put that part in the title the one that shows stuff from all your communities, I thought the decentralized format here means a sticky like that would be only in its own community?
otter@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It might be that “show old posts” is deselected.
remon@ani.social 16 hours ago
Because that post is “pinned”.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
If an instance admin stickies a post it’ll show up at the top of all your feeds (unless you sort by “top”).
However, I checked lemm.ee and it doesn’t have any stickied posts, but it does have a month old post is stuck at the top of “all”. Comments in the thread are complaining about it. I see lemm.ee is using the newest version of Lemmy (v0.19.10) so maybe it’s a new bug?