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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 @[email protected] and @[email protected]. Any idea what might be happening?
See my other comment here
I see, but the issue I encountered has nothing to do with lemmy.ml. It is between lemm.ee and lemmy.world. It would seem then that lemm.ee is also overloaded?
After today's database upgrade, we are doing FAR better. I'm seeing indications that federation should be working smoothly from lemm.ee side now. Hopefully this new hardware will last us for a bit longer than the old one did 😅
Nice! Thank you for running a general and open instance. We appreciate you!
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.
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!
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..
Lemmy network has grown explosively over the past few weeks
"Explosively" is for when the exponential growth passes over the breaking point? 😅
Yeah I noticed the same thing, comments and votes on lemmy.ml posts are being lost. It seems like other servers have the same problem (so it seems correct to say that it's a lemmy.ml problem rather than a lemm.ee problem).
However this seems like a big deal for Lemmy's federation as a whole - people are repeatedly told they can join any server and they don't need to make an account on lemmy.ml, but actually while these problems persist that's not really true...
I can say that both instances - lemmy.ml and lemm.ee - are having their own problems. The same is true for the entire network right now, unfortunately.
It's true that the situation is not great, but there are several people working hard on solutions, so hopefully things will start improving soon!