This might explain why my posts aren't getting enough downvotes.
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2024
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Or you're just not posting trash enough content.
There's no need to be rude.
You lol
Slrpnk seems to be receiving your posts
Looks like it received this one, but not the ones I mentioned that are in lemmy.world communities.
From my experience, lemmy.word can take hours to federate to no matter the instance. I think they might be using some weird shit for "last mile".
Can't wait to see what happens when/if they move to sublinks. How much worse can they get
How much worse can they get
I think kbin.social showed us that overload can get much worse.
Would a federation problem on lemmy.world block propagation to slrpnk.net? That would be a weirdly inefficient network design.
That's (an example of) what I'm seeing right now. It's abnormal.
Hours wouldn't raise my attention. I'm talking days.
I think they might be using some weird shit for “last mile”.
Given that lemmy.world uses Cloudflare, I wonder if their server is overloaded enough to sometimes exceed Cloudflare's 100 second timeout, triggering http-524 errors during federation.
From experience sh.itjust.works sometimes has this problem as well.
They also have one thing in common: Cloudflare
Perhaps it's getting "protected" from federation considered a DoS.
Completely off-topic:
I'm surprised to learn from the comments here that people on other instances subscribe to this sdf-specific community. I have no idea why they would, but it somehow makes me happy.
Lemmies front page is not that big.
On the contrary, its too much stuff I'm not interested in, and/or actively disinterested in, and not enough of the rest. OTOH, I don't even remember the exact topic of this community or instance.
Seems techy and not full of absolute garbage, and that's more than enough for me.
Definitely not
(And it's usually the same people everywhere)
Reading you.
Thanks. So a post to this lemmy.sdf.org community reaches your instance, but my posts to lemmy.world communities do not.
Welcome. Have you been in dialogue with them about it?
Welcome, yourself. ;)
No. I haven't made an SDF board account, since I'm already overloaded with online accounts. I'm not aware of another way to reach them.
Hah! Thanks. Check the sidebar, iirc.
The sidebar shows only a moderator. I assume they can see this discussion already, but if you have reason to think they relay problem reports upstream when pinged, I suppose I could ping them.
A try is the only thing that can beat a fail, I suppose?
I'll take that to mean you have no particular reason to think that. As a general rule, I don't like to poke the mods about operational problems that they are likely already aware of. They're not sysadmins, after all, and having been in those shoes, I know extra demands for attention can get tiresome.
But if this persists for long, I might poke the mod. If other people start noticing it as well, perhaps they will bring it up, too.
What can any of us itt do?
The point of posting is to create a record of the failure, for reference when someone wants to find a pattern or potentially fix it.
Several of us in this thread have already collected relevant information that might help pin it down.
Several times in the past, I have seen SDF members who also have a board account relay problems reported here to the board.
As for you yourself, maybe nothing? That's fine. Feel free to ignore it.
Seeing this on a random dutch instance I joined when my favorite machinist reddits each chose it. No regerts
Thanks, but the posts in question are not showing up on your instance, either.
You can use this graph to have a look at the delay between LW and your instance
It doesn't solve this problem, but it could be useful some day. Bookmarked; thanks.