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.

  • TheDude@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Hey everyone,

    A few days ago when we were under bot attack I rolled out a script to help me mitigate the attack. This script essentially calculated that rate at which certain IPs were posting and added them to a block list. Some of the IPs from other instances such as lemmy.ml were falsely added to this block list. I’ve since gone through all of the IPs and removed the ones that shouldn’t have been there.

    Please let me know if anyone is still having issues and I’ll do my best to review your particular case in a timely manner.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        Yep, I also mod a comm here and I’ve been having problems viewing comments or posts on other instances and vice versa. It’s like it’s stuck with federation, it’s 3, 4 days behind on some instances.