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.

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
    3·
    2 years ago

    I can see your post from lemmy.wtf :)

    Because of the huge influx of new users (and bugs), federation will sometimes lag behind.

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’m on lemmy.world and see your post just fine, with all its comments.

    I also went directly to lemmy.ml to check and I don’t see differences from what I see on lemmy.world, maybe it’s just a delay on federation? Accessing lemmy.ml sometimes give a bad gateway error.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlOP
      01·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • CoffeeBlood91@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    I noticed this yesterday as well. Made a post from lemmy.ca to lemmy.world I saw on lemmy.ca my post had about 100 upvotes and a bunch of comments.

    Hopped into kbin because everyone kept raving about it, so my post with like 160 upvotes and way more comments.

    Kept hopping back and forth between instances trying to reply to comments that would only appear on Kbin.

    So I created an account on Kbin with the same username so I could reply to comments that didn’t appear on lemmy.ca.

    Kbin.social is definitely the most polished instance right now.

  • RoboRay@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    Something we will need to adapt to is potential latency between posting something on one instance and it propagating across other instances.

    Usenet had similar issues back in the day, where it took some time for the nntp servers to send batches of posts to each other, then pass them along to the next server.