New install on new subdomain worse than the old subdomain

So I finally got tired of the hit and miss of using azorius on the same subdomain as my old lemmy install. I assumed it was a key issue so I killed the DB and re initialized the build, and am now hosting it under the new subdomain deddit.

I subscribed to all the same communities but this time I noticed when loading a new community no posts were shown, though the logs clearly show json dumps with posts from those groups. I didn't think anything of it and kept subscribing to my groups. Sometimes a couple of posts would show but usually zero posts.

Today, I see a few commeints but no new posts. Even though the groups are active with new posts, etc.

I see a lot of these entries in the logs:

2023/08/24 16:02:45 no post for comment: https://programming.dev/comment/2291160

Anything I can do to troubleshoot this? Are there any key files stored I should have wiped out or something? I did delete the entire -datadir and recreated it.