SOLVED: My language selection was on “undetermined”. This excluded all the posts and users who had selected “english”. I was playing around with the settings and DELETED ALL language preferences. That allowed all the posts and comments to appear again.
So I don’t seem to have any issues with posts made on lemmy.ca, my local instance. It’s elsewhere, like Lemmy.world where I can’t see majority of comments. For instance, this post has 40 comments but I only see 5.
SOLVED: My language selection was on “undetermined”. This excluded all the posts and users who had selected “english”. I was playing around with the settings and DELETED ALL language preferences. That allowed all the posts and comments to appear again.