I mod a community here, and for the last three days posts made to that community have not been showing up outside of this instance. Specifically, I have an account on Lemmy World, and I can’t see any recent posts from the community I mod on that account.
Also, I follow several communities from other instances including lemmy.world and lemmy.ml and none of the content for those communities have updated here in the last three days, though when I check them from accounts I have with other instances, they all show up fine.
I have checked all of this on my mobile browser, my desktop browser, and Jerboa.
Does anyone know what’s going on? Does this have anything to do with the steps @TheDude@sh.itjust.works has been taking to combat bots? This is really problematic, it’s like we’ve been shadow defederated.
Edit: Seriously, why would someone downvote this post?
Edit 2: I’m not sure if this is related or not, but for the first time, I’m not able to respond to a Kbin users comment. That happened in this post.
FWIW sh.itjust.works was not searchable from kbin instances for the last 2-3 weeks until today. So things may improve soon.
Just as a note, I’m just reading this from kbin.social
Yeah, I can. It doesn’t seem to affect all communities, and I haven’t noticed problems with comments, except where the post also isn’t showing up.
Edit: after looking at this post from my other account, I am seeing issues with comments. There are way less comments being shown on the other instance. Also some of my responses are there, and others aren’t, even within the same thread.
Ok thanks, I thought I didn’t understand some crucial point about federation or something.
The instance is behaving weird for some days and I wasn’t sure if it might be connect for lemmy. When I switch instances in the settings I get way more posts than when I’m on sh.itjust.works, which is weird when they are federated, right?
Also I get a lot of errors, like “comment can’t be found” when I’m trying to answer a thread or comment from another instance. I even had one situation where the comment I was trying to answer completely changed in the answer window, almost if there was some fuckup with the database.
I also can’t see nsfw posts and the defaults in the settings don’t have an effect anymore, so I always get “hot”, but I set it to “top”. I’m not sure if these bugs come from connect or the instance.
I have experienced similar problems which I have posted about here earlier. Nothing has changed with that either. Still no comments showing up and subscription pending still being shown, as is on most other communities from outside instances which I have tried subscribing to. Although comments does show up on those, but I have no idea if it is showing all comments.
It seems very clear that while theoretically a great idea, the whole federation concept just doesn’t work very well in practice yet.
I find it odd that you guys are still having issues. Lemmy is working fine for me, and I’m subscribed to a bunch of communities on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world
