I thought for the last few months that my comments were just being removed, but I logged into Lemmy.world just through Safari today and found all my “missing” comments.
Currently, in the Voyager app, I can see a comment made 2 months ago, but any other more recent comments do not display in my profile for more than a few days. This is problematic because I comment often to return to posts with links I’d like share, or just revisit the conversation. I’ve actually stopped using Voyager and visiting these instances much because I figured I was doing something wrong and having comments removed without notice.
Now that I’ve found that this appears to be Voyager-specific, I’m curious what settings are causing this or if this is a bug.
Are you just clicking on be middle icon at the bottom of your voyager UI (the one that is labeled with your home instance name)? That feed seems to be a mix of your comments and posts with an undisclosed filtering algorithm applied to it. If you click Comments at the top of that feed then it should show you all of your comments. My experience has been that comments with low or negative points tend to get filtered out of the main profile feed after a few days, and my guess is that the decision was motivated by trying to keep you from dwelling on any times when you get strongly downvoted.
Ah! This is very likely it. I can see all my past comments if I tap on the Comments link. I guess the other comments that fall off are less than >50, so maybe there’s some cutoff.
Devs: If we could tweak that, I know that I would appreciate it.