I recently migrated from lemmy.ml to lemmy.world to help with decentralizing and server load. I’ve noticed that a community I moderate, c/[email protected], is not updating: one of the mods I added isn’t showing up on the sidebar, and a mod I removed is showing up. Plus, if I visit my community from lemmy.ml instead of lemmy.world, I see posts that aren’t showing up on lemmy.world.
Is there a workaround for this?
I think people moving to smaller servers is actually adding a different type of overload, as federation is falling over when there are over 100 peers… the more popular a topic, the more peers have subscribers and that creates a big federation replication load.
As far as i can tell, there is no protocol for server integrity checks to find missing replication of comments/posts, nor is there a backfill protocol or logic to repair replication.
First, you have to have a active subscribers on both servers you are looking at, and then from that time forward they are supposed to federate content.
I have tried adding new new nested comments, edits to my own postings and comments to try and “workaround” the problems, but it isn’t always an option and I haven’t found a reliable way to get servers to heal their copies of missing content.