RE federation, the comment only federated after the edit.
I tried upvoting+downvoting myself first, which is a trick that may have helped in the past, but no dice. So federation doesn't appear to be reliable unfortunately.
I understand and don't mind delays, but content still getting missing from federation queues is something i thought doesn't happen anymore.
Edit: This one federated within a couple of minutes. Not bad.
lol. I don't know if anyone will even see this comment.
Apparently questioning a NotTheOnion "Kamala Harris terrifies flailing Trump to the point of incoherence" story was enough for some lemmy instance to ban me, which I only accidentally learned about from another ban. All that because I dared to ask a question in a "Russia vs. Ukraine" meme thread and bring a dose of reality to a discussion.
So I learned quickly to not bother discuss simple reality, let alone anything else, with uniparty followers.
Many of the election season posts have been scrubbed of btw. Very organic!