I noticed this post on Mastodon, wanted to open it in the threadiverse, which nowadays I usually do through Piefed.social.

• Copied link
• In Piefed, Search > Retrieve remote post
• “Post not found”. Me: what? Did the author or mod delete it already???
• Clicked on the link to try, it opened on the native instance (lemmy.world) just fine! Neither author nor mod has deleted it. I read the article.
• After, I investigate a bit more. On Piefed.social, I am subscribed to [email protected] , I can open that /c & can see posts there. But not this post. It’s missing.
• Come to my Lemmy instance (lemmy.ca) with Alex front-end, confirm I can see the post from here. Twice even.

So why can’t I see it on Piefed.social??? Can I not rely on Piefed.social? Censorship, or just an innocent federation issue?