On a complete derailment, I just noticed my post go from 50 something points to 553. I clicked upvote myself and it went down to 5. As I wrote this message, it went through random numbers and is now sitting at 765. ๐
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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I saw it mentioned somewhere that when you see subscriber counts for a community those counts only reflect the amount of subscribers from your instance. At least that is the way I understood it. I know that's not related to comments but there seems to be some ways that the federation work that is not great. Could it be that the comments are from an instance that your instance has de-federated from?
Is the thread. on your local instance or a nother (e
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You are on kbin.social looking at lemmy.world thread) it may be the thread is federated wider than your instance federates
I am on lemmy.world and the post was in this community, so certainly different instance. I can't find the recent observation anymore so can't tell where the poster was from.