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Ok, as a user on lemmy.ml, I'm pretty sure none, or close to, of my posts and comments are being federated. (lemmy.ml)
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I've been monitoring, checking whether my posts or comments appear on external instances, including mastodon, and it doesn't seem to be happening.

See a prior post of mine where I provided some specific examples: https://lemmy.ml/post/1310621

But generally, it seems you could go through my profile and check any post/comment to an external community.

Obviously this is frustrating to me as a user.

But big picture here is whether this is a generally problem for lemmy.ml as a whole. Other instances seem to be federating just fine, but perhaps something has gone wrong with this server or there's a bug that has been tripped here that might occur on other instances too.

Edit thanks for all the replies and confirmations of federation working!! Really! Polite and helpful, wonderful to see … hope I didn’t come off as whiny in this post.

I still think there are problems and maybe things getting lost.

Eg: a post on which I commented, viewed on lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/post/1361008, and the posts original location on beehaw https://beehaw.org/post/639764. Mine is the oldest so sorting by old should show it, or in the case of beehaw, not. And just to clarify, lemmy.ml and beehaw still federate.

EDIT2 Did another test, commenting on an external post and it went through immediately. So it seems the issue is intermittent, as other comments have testified. Still might be a problem worth addressing.

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[–] boopeditandnow@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

This thread has huge ham radio vibes and I love it.

[–] RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

So it seems the issue is intermittent, as other comments have testified. Still might be a problem worth addressing.

But it is a real issue. The regular 'nginx 500' errors on lemmy.ml and other instances are a problem that is impacting federaton, not just webapp clients.

See open bug reports: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3203 and https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101

[–] tom@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I'm seeing this comment organically (I e. Not via your profile) fine on Lemmy.fmhy.ml.

[–] V0lD@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Programming.dev seeing you just fine

[–] juniper@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just seen your post from feddit.uk :) I do agree though, I have an account on feddit and on lemmy.world and when I view the same communities from both accounts I see a totally different number of comments or no comments at all / some posts don't show up / whatever. There's definitely some issues going on here and there.

[–] Haily@rblind.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This. I’m commenting from rblind.com, and yours is the only comment I’m seeing, pun not intended. I hadn’t really noticed this until now, I just assumed Lemmy wasn’t all that popular yet. I’m guessing I’d see no comments whatsoever if I wasn’t subscribed to communities on feddit.uk.

[–] juniper@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Things are definitely a bit wonky. Between federation issues and the fact that the language settings are so convoluted I'm surprised anyone is seeing anything!

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 years ago

I can see your post from lemmy.wtf :)

Because of the huge influx of new users (and bugs), federation will sometimes lag behind.

[–] Coki91@dormi.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I can see this from dormi.zone

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I saw you from Aussie.world

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm on lemmy.world and see your post just fine, with all its comments.

I also went directly to lemmy.ml to check and I don't see differences from what I see on lemmy.world, maybe it's just a delay on federation? Accessing lemmy.ml sometimes give a bad gateway error.

[–] Maestro@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I see your post from kbin.social (which isn't even a Lemmy instance)

[–] CoffeeBlood91@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I noticed this yesterday as well. Made a post from lemmy.ca to lemmy.world I saw on lemmy.ca my post had about 100 upvotes and a bunch of comments.

Hopped into kbin because everyone kept raving about it, so my post with like 160 upvotes and way more comments.

Kept hopping back and forth between instances trying to reply to comments that would only appear on Kbin.

So I created an account on Kbin with the same username so I could reply to comments that didn't appear on lemmy.ca.

Kbin.social is definitely the most polished instance right now.

[–] ContentSpy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I have noticed on other instances also that same thing happening I think its a delay in federation

[–] WidowsFavoriteSon@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hello from beehaw

[–] WTFisthisOMGreally@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought beehaw defederated? Confused

[–] vtez44@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They defederated from shitjustworks and Lemmy.world. They left .ml federated.

[–] WTFisthisOMGreally@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So I can see them and they can see me on kbin?

[–] Notnotmike@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Beehaw user confirming yes

[–] myofficialaccount@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm reading your post from my account at feddit.de. So there's that.

[–] Wutchilli@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Jup, Same here