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 @[email protected] 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.
I figured it had to be something like this. Thanks for looking into this! Also, thank you for hosting this instance.
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!
Just as a note, I’m just reading this from kbin.social
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.
Could the subscriber count on https://sh.itjust.works not matching up with the subscriber count shown on https://browse.feddit.de be a related issue?
On https://sh.itjust.works, [email protected] has 1.5k subscribers. But if you check on https://browse.feddit.de, that same community has 26k subscribers.
I could be wrong on this, so somebody please correct me if I am, but I think the subscriber count only reflects users from the instance you’re currently checking.
So this instance has 1.5k users subscribed to [email protected], whereas https://browse.feddit.de may have 26k of their users subscribed.
I don’t think that’s related though.
Ah, interesting! I’ve learned something new today. Thank you! Is there a way to find out how many subscribers are there in total for a specific community?
Use browse.feddit.de or lemmyverse.net/communities. The subscriber numbers shown there should be accurate
You’re correct. I asked this previously and got the answer that it is showing the number of subscribers from this instance.
Thanks for the confirmation!
Thank you! I’ve been wondering about the mismatch in subscriber count for a while. However I’ve noticed there seems to be sync issues where content on for example again [email protected] may have one stream of memes on hot or new, then you switch to a sh.itjust.works account and there’s a completely different feed. Tho after a couple hours the content will show up, so it may be a long delay.
Good to know the subscriber count doesn’t mean a community is missing instance subscribers
