I know there’s been a few posts about this before, but it’s been a month since the last one and it’s still ongoing. It doesn’t seem that any of the LW admins responded to Zag’s post on their help community, and the last response from lodion/Nath I’m aware of was from 4 months ago when there were outright federation failures as opposed to just lengthy delays.

@Nothing4You@programming.dev posted a comment on the post from last month about the delays stating that it’s an issue on our end as our server isn’t keeping up. I’m not sure whether this is the case or not, and I’m not sure how to interpret the Grafana dashboard they linked to, but as it’s a new reply on an old post, I wanted to note it.

Current federation delays seem to be around 7 days. It doesn’t seem to be affecting posts themselves on Lemmy.world communities, but does affect all replies to them (even from users on other instances), and all upvotes on the posts. [Edit: on further investigation, this isn’t the case. The current delays are at least 13 days, and this does actually affect posts too]

I don’t want to sound too pushy, since the LW admins and Lodion/Nath are all volunteers, but I was hoping we might be able to get an update on what the cause is, and if it’s an issue in Lemmy itself, if anybody’s opened an issue on GitHub and the developers are aware.

(NB: I don’t interact that much with LW, so all of my testing has been on the Boost for Lemmy community.)

  • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻English
    3•1 month ago

    I’ve made a pinned post over in !australia@aussie.zone for any confused lemmy.world users who are posting comments which aren’t getting any interaction in our communities. If there are any issues with the content of the post I can fix it up

    • @Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      3•1 month ago

      Thanks dhmo. One request though: would it be possible to unpin the (now closed) moderator applications post? I was actually going to message you about that earlier (but put it into the “ah I’ll get around to it eventually pile”) as all the pinned posts make it harder to see posts on my mobile app

      • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻English
        2•1 month ago

        Thanks, I’ve done that now, kind of thought it might be a bit annoying. I’m in two minds over unpinning the tax scam one, on the one hand it’s basically as old as the community and on the other it’s somewhat useful info

        • @Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
          2•1 month ago

          I reckon you should keep it until someone writes a new one. I might write a more general one after tax time

          Personally I’m not sure it’s that useful, my assumption is that given the more technical nature of most lemmings, it’s probably pointless. But that’s probably a bad way of thinking, since anybody can (and have!) been scammed before, and even though some people are harder to scam, everybody has their weaknesses

          • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻English
            2•1 month ago

            Yeah that would be good. Perhaps we might replace it with a more general thread about scams and encourage people to share scams they’ve come across, maybe refresh it every year. That way we can all be a bit more aware of specific examples of ongoing scams - even if the average Lemmy user might not fall for them it’s likely they know someone who will. The only fear I guess with the megathread format is it will disappear as it becomes inactive (in people’s feeds at least), so maybe a separate community is in order