The question is basically the title.
It’s very hit-and-miss. But mostly miss. That picture of a cat hiding under wrapping paper taunts me.
It doesn’t seem to be related to what instance the content is on. But I haven’t been able to find any pattern.
Is there an alternative (for non-instance-admins) that works more reliably?
Yes, but as I said in another comment, I have examples of comments made by the same user to two different communities on the same instance which none-the-less differ with regard to whether they work on Lemvotes. So apparently it can vary by which community it’s posted to, not just by instance.
Wait, is this a new community? I bet you it’s a federation issue. If this is the first time that the lemvotes server has been pointed to that community. It may not have a copy of anything on hand to actually check against. Depending on how it works. Piefed and Lemmy both can take a while to populate a new community. And won’t do so until the first person from its instance requests to view them. So you might not see much of anything at first but over the next few days especially if there are repeated attempts to access it should try to load in the backlog. But it’s not instant. So it may just be a legitimate 404.
Ah! Ok. That makes sense and seems plausible. The Linuxsucks Sucks community is a little over a month old and hasn’t had all that many folks participate.
Yes I’m Loosely aware of the drama surrounding the reference community. I just don’t give it any mind. And use Linux or BSD on everything. If they want to be a pissy power tripping baby in their community then they can. But I don’t think they should expect too many to participate either.
Fair. Definitely don’t blame you. I only participate because it’s fun to poke the bear and have fun at Madthumbs’ expense sometimes. Like the Buttcoin community (or rather “communities” - there are at least 4 on Lemmy) does with cryptobros. And Artificial Ignorance does with generative AI.
heh I do that sometimes still I suppose. Though much more in moderation at my age.
No what I was stating is that who the parent of a comment is can impact it as much as who made the comment. Go into a thread where anyone from Lemmy.ml has posted. If you try to look at their upvotes and downvotes it will give you a 404. If you look at the posts of anyone who replies to them it will also give you a 404. However if you see someone who replied to them post in another thread. It can report without a 404 simply because the person from lemmy.ml wasn’t in the chain. If they enter anywhere into the chain you will get a 404. The same for any instance that has defederatedOh wait I see what you’re saying now interesting
Ah. I’m with you. Well that’s super annoying. Maybe one more reason why lemmy.world should defederate from lemmy.ml. :\
Edit: Oh, I wrote this before I saw your edit. I thought you were saying that if a lemmy.ml user responds to a thread on lemmy.world, then the whole thread won’t work on Lemvotes. Which… I don’t specifically know isn’t the case at this point. But yeah.