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lemmy.ml federation is bugged

Noticed this several days ago. I wanted to be active in this community: https://lemm.ee/c/tf2@lemmy.ml

However, as you can see by comparing to lemmy.ml's own version of the community, lemm.ee is not properly updating comments or point totals: https://lemmy.ml/c/tf2

When I left my own comment on a post there, it did federate to other instances, but it's not being updated on lemm.ee.

I've noticed something similar with other lemmy.ml communities, large and small. Compare:

https://lemm.ee/c/steam@lemmy.ml and https://lemmy.ml/c/steam/

Politics as well:

https://lemm.ee/c/politics@lemmy.ml and https://lemmy.ml/c/politics

And probably others as well. I've checked to make sure my language isn't set to undetermined and I've also tried viewing the communities while logged out.

There's also something bugged about trying to subscribe to any of lemmy.ml's communities. They appear on my profile and feed as a sub, but visiting the communities themselves, I've been stuck on "subscribe pending" for several days. Clicking the button repeatedly to make another attempt to subscribe doesn't work. Not a huge deal since they still show up in my feed, but it might be related.

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syl

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I have an account on lemmy.world and I am also not seeing the latest posts on this sub (support @ lemm.ee) from my lemmy.world account. I am only seeing posts posted from 2 days ago, not the latest ones. For example, I am not seeing this very same post nor am I seeing this one: https://lemm.ee/post/64925

Pinging @ruud@lemmy.world and @sunaurus@lemm.ee. Any idea what might be happening?

sunaurus

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Lemmy.ml is unfortunately the most overloaded instance at the moment, which is negatively impacting propagation of comments, subscribing to their communities, and many other things.

On the whole, the Lemmy network has grown explosively over the past few weeks, so all the instances are struggling to catch up. Admins are upgrading their hardware + the next version of Lemmy will bring several much needed optimizations, but there's still a lot of work to do in order to get everything running smoothly.

BeegYoshi

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Even with things being overloaded, it just seems odd that things still haven't updated correctly after several days. ~~Everything looks fine from my midwest.social account, and that instance has been going down entirely pretty frequently~~ lmao that was straight up wrong, everything was fine on the one post I was looking at but I failed to notice some other posts were missing entirely. Too bad!

sunaurus

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Basically, when you make a post or a comment on lemmy.ml, then at the same time, that post or comment gets pushed out by lemmy.ml to the federated network.

If lemmy.ml fails to send it out to the network, OR if any instance fails to receive this message (currently both are likely due to massive load increases), then the message will not be visible on that instance.

Other instances can then still pull that comment from lemmy.ml, but this is a manual action triggered when a user of that instance somehow interacts with that specific post or comment (currently this means searching for it). Of course, this pull can again fail if lemmy.ml is still overloaded! For example, when searching for your comment, the sync seems to fail every time..