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