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Outbound Federation Bug (self.meta)
submitted 1 year ago by Ategon to c/meta
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Hey everyone. Currently the instance is being affected by a bug that prevents outbound federation. This seems to have started when the instance upgraded to 0.18.5

Im pinning this post in the instance while it is affected by the bug so everyone is aware as this affects everyone in the instance

Theres an open issue on the lemmy github repository and we are attempting to track down why this is happening and fix it

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4039

What the bug means is essentially

  • We still get all posts and comments around the fediverse like normal (so youll see posts made in other communities populate the feeds like normal)
  • Posts and comments made by users in programming.dev are not visible outside programming.dev

Hopefully itll be resolved soon. If anyones able to get some info that would be helpful towards resolving the bug throw it here or in the github issue

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[–] onlinepersona 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish the devs good luck on solving this. Popping up on multiple instances and seemingly unrelated to the update. Wouldn't want to be the one debugging.

[–] Deebster 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hope this is banished, and quickly. This absolutely ruins Lemmy as everything feels quieter than it really is because you see fewer posts, and worst everyone feels ignored themselves as you don't even get any upvotes let alone replies.

This bug is like half of users are suddenly shadow-banned, something designed to stop users from interacting.

[–] Cyno 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This whole fediverse feels very shaky tbh, we have this issue now but as someone who is usually on kbin there's been issues like these from the start - posts not getting propagated to other instances, mod actions not being sent or updated, missing entire domains because of the bugs in the filter, etc. Add to that legitimate choices like defederation and domain blocking, it just feels fractured and nonfunctional because I still need a separate account on every instance to actually participate on it.

I know it's a FOSS project with no guarantees and everything these people do is in their free time but I really wish stability and basic functionality was the first thing they focused on, otherwise everything else is in vain since it's on top of an unstable foundation.

[–] Temporalin 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't judge the fediverse for Lemmy or kbin, which are pretty new actors. GNUSocial or Mastodon are pretty well established, I don't remember things like this happening in the "Twitter-like" side

[–] Cyno 2 points 1 year ago

True, I did mostly mean the thread-style sites. Mastodon seems relatively stable for the last year or so

[–] ericjmorey 1 points 1 year ago

I know of one dev that is making their own threaded forum and link aggregator project using ActivityPub. They are focusing on better architecture while maintaining compatibility with Lemmy's ActivityPub implementation. They seem to be making good progress, but it isn't ready for an alpha release yet. I hope they stick with it. There's a lot of potential for improvements for both administration and user experience over Lemmy's design.

[–] onlinepersona 1 points 1 year ago

I know it’s a FOSS project with no guarantees and everything these people do is in their free time but I really wish stability and basic functionality was the first thing they focused on, otherwise everything else is in vain since it’s on top of an unstable foundation.

You have that opinion, but then there are others that come along and ask for all kinds of polished features - and not even nicely. "Why don't you just".

If you want these "basic features" then the best way to get them is to contribute.

[–] nieceandtows 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I made a post in homeowners asking for advice, and seeing how I didn't get any responses after hours, ended up posting it 'elsewhere' after a long long time. Later realized it could be a federation bug, posted it from my lemmy.world account, and got responses right away.