Just in case anyone is using their account here to post to off-instance communities: those posts and comments seem to have a very high failure rate. There is a lot of activity and accounts on this instance. This is to raise awareness, not to pull people away or break up the lemmyverse. Quite the opposite really: there is a technical problem on this instance that might be preventing the lemmyverse from functioning as it should.
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Lemmy.world and some others have held back on the 0.18.0 back end update because the admin did not want to forego this Captcha integration, which broke in 0.18.0. Version 0.18.1 is expected to release soon, and address the regression with Captcha.
The new version also reduces its reliance on websockete, which should address a number of other quality-of-life problems on this instance, such as the random post bug (and hopefully the 404s/JSON errors I’ve been getting all afternoon).
Hopefully just a few more days and we’ll be back to rights.
I don’t think it’s a version issue. It could be, but testing I’ve done says otherwise. There’s plenty of 0.17.4 instances that, despite other bugs, have no problem sending and receiving updates from other instances. I hope you’re right. I don’t run the instance so testing reveals mostly speculation.
There’s plenty of 0.17.4 instances that, despite other bugs, have no problem sending and receiving updates from other instances.
It’s probably because of the absolute scale of dot world. This is what happens when you try to centralize ActivityPub, especially an implementation like Lemmy which did not previously have any of the scaling challenges the likes of Mastodon had before.
Everyone should’ve told people to pick different instances (there are STILL new guides written where step 1 is to “just register on dot world” [or shitjustworks, which isn’t any better, really]) and admin should’ve locked registrations after 10-15k, maybe 20k users MAX, yet y’all got too greedy. Good fucking luck dealing with the aftermath.
I should probably go to bed, I’m getting grumpy.
It’s a known issue:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101
Seems to be growing pains from Lemmy having to scale up in a very short amount of time so hopefully they are able to find a workaround soon.
It’s not happening everywhere and all the time but it happens enough for you to think a post or comment has no engagement when it does just not on your instance.
It’s a known issue, but if you look at the issues, the reason for it is “could be lots of things.” Relying on a FOSS project to fix the problems of the community is kind of naive. If the admins don’t step up then I’ve no sympathy for them when the whole thing crumbles.
Why did this get downvoted? Something being an “issue” on GitHub is about as meaningless as something can be. Unengaged developers are usually the result of unengaged users. I’m saying IF your admin (not that they did,) submitted an issue and then is just sitting back and waiting, that’s shitty.
That isn’t at all what is happening, the world admin team has been very engaged with the project on GitHub with a ton of back and forth and various code pushes to fix the captcha pullback that’s in 0.18. The issue you are seeing is known and the belief is it should get better with the update to 0.18.1 that the devs have said is coming in the next few days. It seems to be partly due to the size of the world instance and the problems with web sockets. You’re likely being downvoted for appearing to be authoritative about this and blaming the world admin team (it’s more than a single person) when they know this is a symptom and have a plan they think will fix it that a little more digging into the history of why they’ve chosen to forgo the 0.18.0 update would have answered your questions.
I was meaning to be authoritative, and I am low-key blaming the admin team. I grant them the benefit of the doubt though. I still don’t think it has anything to do with the 0.18.0 upgrade.
EDIT: I don’t care what the admin team does, how loyal or dedicated they are, or anything like that. I just want the reddit alternative to not suck.
So I’ve been thinking of spinning up a personal instance. I have the tech chops for most projects like this in a small scale but are there any reasons why I shouldn’t use Lemmy in that way?
This has been discussed in an issues thread which @ruud@lemmy.world responded to, so we can assume he’s aware, though I haven’t seen an update.
Fair enough. Keep in mind, being popular doesn’t magically bestow the knowledge, resources, or willingness to handle issues.
(ignore me) test post from sh.itjust.works account
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Yeah this is so bizarre. Is it possible that sh.itjust.works is having trouble receiving, or is it confirmed that lemmy.world is dropping the ball on outgoing notifications?
Look. I’m not pointing fingers, but I know a thing or two and I can say with a high degree of certainty it is lemmy.world. :) Does the admin care? Do the users? Who knows. I just thought it was important information to have.
The silent failures are what actually miff me the most. Like to an uneducated user, everything is just working fine, but in reality they are stuck in lemmy.world.
I’m on kbin.social and I can see this ;)
Hilarious. This comment doesn’t show on sh.itjust.works, which makes total sense. lemmy.world is responsible for sending it to other federated servers. Maybe kbin > lemmy right now?
Soooo sh.itdoesntwork?
sh.it.works.sometimes
