Yeah, I did confirm with the connect app developer it’s an app caching issue. No idea if he can even do anything about it without slowing his app down and causing it to make a bunch more API calls.
I have no idea if it’s possible to fix federation issues like with kbin besides doing the mod action again and waiting to see if it syncs. I’m amazed this whole fedverse thing even works at all based on how fast the users grew.
I’m sure in a few months this will all be less annoying to deal with. I’m kind of done looking at this anyways.