re: batching - ah, that makes sense:-(. About the scenario of the post not showing up - perhaps nobody on Lemmy.World was subscribed to that community? I see my replies instantly on Lemmy.World, so indeed there seems to be no real “problem” between it and piefed.social (though ofc feddit.org is a different server), except as you say the high amount of complexity via what is vs. is not federated.
BUT, that is why I was thinking: if people were prevented from forcibly bringing in posts, then that actually solves a lot of the issue. As it is now, if I go to https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/yepowertrippinbastards there are… well I don’t want to count them but there are an awful lot of posts there - multiple pages at least. Whereas here on piefed.social, at [email protected] I see… well there are some, though not all, and the most recent is a day, while the one furthest back is from 2 months ago. At first glance, without getting into the details, I deluded myself into thinking “this community seems to have all the posts until about 2 months ago, though it may have none before that” (b/c this is the chief explanation that would have been true on Lemmy). In actual fact though, it is missing many posts from that timeframe, it is missing votes for those exact posts, and also those posts all have zero comments from them. So these “ghost” posts aren’t really there, not really, or at least not “fully”, and others from the same timeperiod also are not there, however, posts from now on likely will show up there, b/c I subscribed to it - so as long as I keep my account active here, new posts, along with all of their votes, and all of the comments associated with such, should show up? This is happening with that “So I was just banned from [email protected] for no apparent reason?” post, with 49 comments and 43 overall votes, which on the original server shows… yup, 49 comments and 42 overall votes.
So my idea here is that if there were no posts prior to this one (not that I am advocating for actively removing them - that seems to take effort and anyway it’s a corner case that doesn’t really matter), then people would not get confused by these “ghost” postings - there would simply be all the posts that are “real”, and there would be no such “ghosts”. And to enact such in the future, the “Retrieve a post from the original server” would have to be disabled. But, it’s just a thought, and like I have no idea what all that would “break” in terms of other functionality, so it’s just something that we are enjoying talking about here - unless you want to take it forward somehow, or eventually I’ll put it as a suggestion into the meta community. But do you see what I mean, especially why that would help avoid confusion, by keeping things simple? That community for instance would contain only one post, the one from yesterday, which reveals that “hard” cutoff between posts that are actually there vs. only partially so, and it matches the existing behavior of Lemmy. Not that we need to always follow that as a guide, but when possible that does help ease transition as people come here from there, e.g. significantly lessening the need for a FAQ or meta post providing an explanation.
Although hopefully we can get more mainstream people here that have or would never have even used Lemmy before, b/c of all the toxicity and extremist postings that turn away literally everyone that I’ve ever mentioned Lemmy to irl. Whereas here, we can dare to be different, and hold ourselves to a higher standard! (which many people WILL like, I am certain of that:-D - though ofc not all, and ironically that will help too, by keeping those who do enjoy such “disruption” out).
I hope I am not barraging you with too much text! Rather, it is a lot but I hope it helps to have a sounding board for those ideas of yours, and to see some other alternatives that probably you’ve already considered as well but perhaps in a new light or at least fresher due to potentially different verbiage:-).
Part 2 of 2 - again, oops.
re: batching - ah, that makes sense:-(. About the scenario of the post not showing up - perhaps nobody on Lemmy.World was subscribed to that community? I see my replies instantly on Lemmy.World, so indeed there seems to be no real “problem” between it and piefed.social (though ofc feddit.org is a different server), except as you say the high amount of complexity via what is vs. is not federated.
BUT, that is why I was thinking: if people were prevented from forcibly bringing in posts, then that actually solves a lot of the issue. As it is now, if I go to https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/yepowertrippinbastards there are… well I don’t want to count them but there are an awful lot of posts there - multiple pages at least. Whereas here on piefed.social, at [email protected] I see… well there are some, though not all, and the most recent is a day, while the one furthest back is from 2 months ago. At first glance, without getting into the details, I deluded myself into thinking “this community seems to have all the posts until about 2 months ago, though it may have none before that” (b/c this is the chief explanation that would have been true on Lemmy). In actual fact though, it is missing many posts from that timeframe, it is missing votes for those exact posts, and also those posts all have zero comments from them. So these “ghost” posts aren’t really there, not really, or at least not “fully”, and others from the same timeperiod also are not there, however, posts from now on likely will show up there, b/c I subscribed to it - so as long as I keep my account active here, new posts, along with all of their votes, and all of the comments associated with such, should show up? This is happening with that “So I was just banned from [email protected] for no apparent reason?” post, with 49 comments and 43 overall votes, which on the original server shows… yup, 49 comments and 42 overall votes.
So my idea here is that if there were no posts prior to this one (not that I am advocating for actively removing them - that seems to take effort and anyway it’s a corner case that doesn’t really matter), then people would not get confused by these “ghost” postings - there would simply be all the posts that are “real”, and there would be no such “ghosts”. And to enact such in the future, the “Retrieve a post from the original server” would have to be disabled. But, it’s just a thought, and like I have no idea what all that would “break” in terms of other functionality, so it’s just something that we are enjoying talking about here - unless you want to take it forward somehow, or eventually I’ll put it as a suggestion into the meta community. But do you see what I mean, especially why that would help avoid confusion, by keeping things simple? That community for instance would contain only one post, the one from yesterday, which reveals that “hard” cutoff between posts that are actually there vs. only partially so, and it matches the existing behavior of Lemmy. Not that we need to always follow that as a guide, but when possible that does help ease transition as people come here from there, e.g. significantly lessening the need for a FAQ or meta post providing an explanation.
Although hopefully we can get more mainstream people here that have or would never have even used Lemmy before, b/c of all the toxicity and extremist postings that turn away literally everyone that I’ve ever mentioned Lemmy to irl. Whereas here, we can dare to be different, and hold ourselves to a higher standard! (which many people WILL like, I am certain of that:-D - though ofc not all, and ironically that will help too, by keeping those who do enjoy such “disruption” out).
I hope I am not barraging you with too much text! Rather, it is a lot but I hope it helps to have a sounding board for those ideas of yours, and to see some other alternatives that probably you’ve already considered as well but perhaps in a new light or at least fresher due to potentially different verbiage:-).