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In the screenshot I’ve included, you can see that the number of comments for the post is 20+. However, I only see 2 comments when I look at the post.

Is this just a byproduct of federation? I don’t think I’ve blocked any instances yet, but is it possible the comments are from instances blocked my lemmy.world? Also, I use Memmy on iOS; could that be the cause?

Appreciate any insight!

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[–] Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it must be a federation thing? I have the same problem and would like a definitive answer.

[–] Acronymesis@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another commenter advised that I add “English” along with “Undetermined” in the language settings for Lemmy. That seems to have done the trick!

[–] Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'll try this, thank you!

[–] fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Check your language settings. If you changed them you are not able to see all posts.

[–] nix@merv.news 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This should be removed. We should encourage people from any country/language being able to communicate with eachother and make inline translations easy to setup vs hiding comments

Why do I feel like you'd be leaving this platform if your feed was 90% german?

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remove an option? Its by definition optional, and inline translation services are pretty bad usually so a lot of users might not want to use them

[–] nix@merv.news -1 points 1 year ago

Its actively causing bad user experiences because it’s confusing and also hard to know that it’s causing the issue

[–] Acronymesis@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just checked, I left the setting as “Undetermined” as it warns that changing the language will make certain content unavailable.

[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Change it to English lol. I forget where it was said, but a month or so ago I remember someone saying there had been an issue where if you leave it as Undetermined, it won't show you most English content.

[–] WtfEvenIsExistence@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Yea, you need to check both "Undetermined" and "English" to see most content. You should also check any other language you might want to see.

@Acronymesis@lemmy.world

[–] Acronymesis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I think this was the trick! Changed language setting so that “Undetermined” and “English” and comments in this very post appeared that weren’t there before! Thanks so much!

[–] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just selected all languages so I'd be able to see everything.

[–] Kalladblog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not available on connect you can only choose undetermined afaik

[–] WtfEvenIsExistence@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Try using the web-ui on a browser. I've been using browser for Lemmy and I never had any issues.

Edit: I just checked the post via your instance (lemmy.world) using web-ui I see all comments. ~~So I'll conclude that your app must be having issues.~~

Edit 2: After some experimenting. It seems if you only checked "Undetermined" but not "English", most English comments will not show up. Please go to settings and check both "Undetermined" and "English" (and any other language you want to see).

[–] Acronymesis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Just did this and your comment appeared in my notifications only after doing so! Looks like I’m good now. 😎

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Same issue with Sync. I've always just though it was users who I've blocked/blocked me since the fediverse is so small

[–] shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On top of language settings, you can also check if bot accounts are being shown or hidden, because it will hide bot comments and any child comments beneath bot comments too

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you blocked anyone?

Did you turn off bots in your account settings?

[–] Acronymesis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hmmm. I have blocked two users and two NSFW communities. Hard to imagine that low amount of blocking could be the cause for only seeing 2 out of 20 comments on a given post, but maybe?

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Try reloading it once or twice. I usually have to do that to have more than just a few comments show up

[–] PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have the same issue with Memmy, but also Voyager (IOS). I had also read a week or so ago a comment insinuating it was a federation issue with Lemmy.world commemts. I noticed the one comment saying they could see em was a .world account.

[–] Acronymesis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I followed a suggestion from another commenter here and added English to my language settings a long with “Undetermined”. That fixed it!

[–] LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Liftoff user here, can see all comments. For those that want to check, here's the post in question:

https://lemmy.ca/post/4613595

[–] Cabeza2000@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Using your link I see that I have the problem. I see all 22 comments on that post if I open your lemmy.ca link on browser but if I open it on Sync I am missing like 5 posts.

Now I need to figure out how to fix this...

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

I only see 1 with sync