Say we have two different instances, none of which are blocked by or blocking other instances. Theoretically, shouldn’t their results be the same on the “All” page using the same sorting mechanic, e.g., Hot.

But apparently this isn’t so when I tested it on instances with no blocking or blocked by criteria. Can anyone explain to me why? I’m still relatively new to Lemmy, and I am genuinely curious.

PS: I’m using the “recommended” instances from this git: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

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    1 year ago

    Federation doesn’t happen immediately, the syncs could be happening at a little bit different times across the different instances. Not enough to make any major differences in the content you’re seeing or interacting with, but probably enough to make the 1:1 comparison not line up.