I’ve been monitoring, checking whether my posts or comments appear on external instances, including mastodon, and it doesn’t seem to be happening.
See a prior post of mine where I provided some specific examples: https://lemmy.ml/post/1310621
But generally, it seems you could go through my profile and check any post/comment to an external community.
Obviously this is frustrating to me as a user.
But big picture here is whether this is a generally problem for lemmy.ml as a whole. Other instances seem to be federating just fine, but perhaps something has gone wrong with this server or there’s a bug that has been tripped here that might occur on other instances too.
Edit thanks for all the replies and confirmations of federation working!! Really! Polite and helpful, wonderful to see … hope I didn’t come off as whiny in this post.
I still think there are problems and maybe things getting lost.
Eg: a post on which I commented, viewed on lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/post/1361008, and the posts original location on beehaw https://beehaw.org/post/639764. Mine is the oldest so sorting by old should show it, or in the case of beehaw, not. And just to clarify, lemmy.ml and beehaw still federate.
EDIT2 Did another test, commenting on an external post and it went through immediately. So it seems the issue is intermittent, as other comments have testified. Still might be a problem worth addressing.
I can see your post from lemmy.wtf :)
Because of the huge influx of new users (and bugs), federation will sometimes lag behind.
This thread has huge ham radio vibes and I love it.
I’m seeing your post via kbin.social.
From all the comments, it proves otherwise. If you are on Mastodon try to search your lemmy @username@server there.
Yes, it proves that federation is happening. Which is great.
But it doesn’t mean that federation problems are not also occurring. I just checked one of my comments to a beehaw post 2 days ago, and it still doesn’t appear there. Things can get lost if federation goes bad, from what I’ve seen.
Also, maybe I’ve been impatient on some instances.
You’re showing up on my personal instance.
Things do sometimes take a bit to come across, and I tend to get a bunch of posts from a single instance come in at one. It does make a bit of a pain at times as I won’t see anything at all from an instance, then my front page fills up with nothing but posts from one community within an instance (that’s how I came across this thread).
Not specific to lemmy.ml, I have both a beehaw and kbin account and by looking at threads from both sides I’ve noticed that sometimes I don’t see replies to comments on kbin, it’s like not everything gets synced properly every time.
Yea, I suspect that this is closer to the mark. It’s not a universal lack of feeerstion, but a bug that turns up from time to time.
In my experience so far, it’s happening with beehaw and startrek.website.
Programming.dev seeing you just fine
Hello from beehaw
I thought beehaw defederated? Confused
They defederated from shitjustworks and Lemmy.world. They left .ml federated.
I can see this from dormi.zone
I’m seeing this comment organically (I e. Not via your profile) fine on Lemmy.fmhy.ml.
I saw you from Aussie.world
I have noticed on other instances also that same thing happening I think its a delay in federation
So it seems the issue is intermittent, as other comments have testified. Still might be a problem worth addressing.
But it is a real issue. The regular ‘nginx 500’ errors on lemmy.ml and other instances are a problem that is impacting federaton, not just webapp clients.
See open bug reports: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3203 and https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101
I see your post from kbin.social (which isn’t even a Lemmy instance)
Also on kbin.social, can confirm it’s visible
