Question is all there in the title. No matter which way I try to sort the feed it seems to be entirely random instead.
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 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?
When you sort what by “newest”?
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
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.
Do you mean https://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.
Yup, that is the one. So not something I am doing wrong then just some current oddity with the site. I can live with that, was just curious. Thanks!
I think it’s a federation bug. That post is on https://community.nodebb.org/, which isn’t a Lemmy instance but actually a different software.
Which in itself is cool! There are a few projects being worked on right now to make traditional forums compatible with activity pub. The idea being that someday you’ll be able to follow and post in official support forums for things right from your Lemmy account.
But right now, it might be causing some weird federation bug. Maybe the date of the post shows up to Lemmy as sometime in the future and so it’s always the “newest” post (or something similar)?
That is cool, I did not even realize that Lemmy can interact with different software that way. It really is such an awesome idea!
My guess is that the post was submitted with incorrect timestamp, and despite being adjusted to the correct one, it doesn’t seem to be taken into account correctly in Lemmy. Maybe the post was set far into the future and it’s gonna be stuck there in new until forever 🤣
(Un)fortunately, I don’t see the issue on the local instance I’m on, otherwise I’d check the timestamp in the database just to figure out the root cause.
maybe it’s a post that has been stickied by a mod?
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?
So while this isn’t the cause in your case, it is possible to sticky things to the main feed. It’s done by admins, and for example lemmy.ca has a welcome post stickied right now:
It might be that “show old posts” is deselected in settings.
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