I posted this post on 3D [email protected] and cross-posted it to [email protected], and apparently it made it to neither.

For the lemmy.world community, I’m not really surprised. I simply can’t create any post on any lemmy.world community from SDF. None of my posts ever shows up there for some reason. But I’m more surprised that it doesn’t show up on lemmy.ml: usually I have zero problems with that instance.

So I’m wondering if there’s a problem with federation or if it has something to do with the large number of photos in my post.

Anybody knows?

  • @[email protected]OP
    1•16 days ago

    I tried several things:

    • Hosted all the images on my Pixelfed rather than directly on lemmy.sdf.org: no joy
    • Replaced “El-cheapo” by “Cheap” in the title, in case lemmy.ml has some overly-busy PC filter and “el-cheapo” is now considered offensive or something: no joy
    • Finally, I removed 2 photos to keep the total images in the post to 10: it went right through on lemmy.ml

    So it’s the number of images. Apparently more than 10 is not okay with all instances. Good to know if you ever want to make a photo-heavy post too.

    I’ve also cross-posted this successfully to lemmy.world. First time in a long time. And the only real difference with all my previous failed posts that only had one or two images is that the images aren’t hosted by lemmy.sdf.org.

    So it would also appear that lemmy.world doesn’t like posts with photos inlined directly on the SDF instance.

    • mox
      1•16 days ago

      Thanks for sharing your findings. Did you try these things more than once, on different days, to make sure the triggers you think you found weren’t merely coincidences?

      • @[email protected]OP
        1•16 days ago

        Yeah I did many posts over months on the lemmy.world 3D-printing community - and other communities too. In the best cases, the post went through 2 or 3 hours late. Sometimes up to 2 days late. Usually it never goes through though.

        I usually post things with pictures, so I always have at least a thumbnail picture that I uploaded direct on lemmy.sdf.org.

        This last post I did had a thumbnail hosted on SDF’s Pixelfed and it went right up.

        As for lemmy.ml, I never have problems with it. It’s just this one time because I hit their images limit - that I wasn’t aware of and is documented nowhere as far as I know.