• Wololo@lemmy.caOP
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    1 year ago

    That post was at the top of the frontpage on lemmy.world yesterday, but I couldn’t find it on the frontpage (even after some scrolling) on lemmy.ca.

    The upvote count is different between the lemmy.ca post and the lemmy.world post. Could this be the reason that the post doesn’t show on the front page, since lemmy.ca thinks the post isnt as popular as it actually is?

    • Mars@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I can’t confirm, but I suspect a couple of contributing factors are:

      1. The instances take some time to sync with each other
      2. Each instance may determine a different set of “top” posts since they don’t have the exact same data into that “top” algorithm