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.
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.
Maybe not the same issue but I can’t see communities with names longer than 20 characters here. There’s a discussion and solution (I think) here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3449
Any chance of getting that fixed?
Hi there,
I’ve upped it to 50 characters.
Thanks! Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be working so there must be something else going on. I appreciate you trying the change for me though!
I figured it had to be something like this. Thanks for looking into this! Also, thank you for hosting this 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
It is indeed very odd. Nevertheless that is unfortunately what is happening.
I can see your post from lemm.ee. Can you see my comment?
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.
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.
