Seems federation is still not fixed even though it certainly helped to federate some things, while leaving others... :/
On the positive side, the pull request that may fix federation properly in the software was approved by one of the Lemmy devs 2 hours ago so it should be merged with the main code soon:
Maybe it worked now after a restart of the server?
Yeah its completely empty on https://lemmy.dbzer0.com, even after a restart of the server here.... :/
Yeah that post looks very empty on https://lemmy.dbzer0.com, and even after I restarted Lemmy here, none of it federated to the https://lemmy.dbzer0.com instance. But I can see that other posts and comments has federated to other instances after a restart, like these ones to Lemmy.world:
https://lemmy.today/post/4778593 => https://lemmy.world/post/10236722
https://lemmy.today/post/4786719 => https://lemmy.world/post/10236757
I get the feeling that there are many small bugs in the software....and getting a clear picture of why some things federate and some doesnt is difficult of course.
They should be there now - it seems a restart of Lemmy is still required for posts to federate....
For me Lemmy was working very well yesterday though, and I got responses to posts and comments right away. However, it seems like federation stops to work after a while again. The site I linked before:
https://phiresky.github.io/lemmy-federation-state/site?domain=lemmy.today
That one was showing that we had thousands of lagging instances and no updated ones just a few moments ago. And after a restart, they are all up to date again. So absolutely some bug remaining...
Yes, it seems federation still is buggy. :/
Your comments are on lemmy.world now but they needed a Lemmy software restart to make them federate:
https://lemmy.today/post/4778593 => https://lemmy.world/post/10236722
https://lemmy.today/post/4786719 => https://lemmy.world/post/10236757
So still gremlins in the software...
If you feel comfortable sharing a post that hasn't federated, please link to it. :)
Thats great. :)
I know other instances on 0.19.1 had issues with federation so I can share what we did here to try and fix it.
There is a database table in postgres called instance and in our case, it had thousands of instances that were considered dead. Our instance didnt seem to try and talk to them anymore since the "updated" column would never update.
So we ran a simple database query to set the updated column to now() for all instances that we knew about:
update instance set updated = now()
This caused Lemmy to go out and try to talk to all of the instances again, and reconsider if they were dead or not.
According to this site we are now federated with 3000+ instances again:
https://phiresky.github.io/lemmy-federation-state/site?domain=lemmy.today
I hope we stay federated this time. Will keep an eye on it. :)
Everything is pushed out but only when we restart the server... Hopefully a fix for that soon!
That sounds awesome. I really hope it fixes the problem, this is so frustrating. Thanks for the links!
We had to remove the scheduled restarts since they didn't work reliably and brought the server down. So they are not in effect right now. We do manual restarts a few times per day only.
Still hoping for a fix from Lemmy devs soon...
Yeah I think it will be fixed soon. Just need to wait a bit longer for Lemmy devs to push some code. :)