Neither of my posts from yesterday and today have made it out to their communities’ home instance (lemmy.world), and neither has received any comments or votes. It seems like something to do with outgoing federation is stuck.

Edit to clarify:

The problem I’m seeing affects posts. I don’t know if it affects comments.

It’s possible that it only affects lemmy.world communities, but it definitely affects them even on other instances. Neither of these posts are showing up on any remote instance that I’ve seen:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/21620419

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/21673588

6 days later, it’s happening again:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/21974478

  • Dr. Wesker
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    162 months ago

    This might explain why my posts aren’t getting enough downvotes.

  • XNX
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    102 months ago

    Slrpnk seems to be receiving your posts

    • moxOP
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      32 months ago

      Looks like it received this one, but not the ones I mentioned that are in lemmy.world communities.

      • jawa21
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        22 months ago

        From my experience, lemmy.word can take hours to federate to no matter the instance. I think they might be using some weird shit for “last mile”.

          • moxOP
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            22 months ago

            How much worse can they get

            I think kbin.social showed us that overload can get much worse.

        • moxOP
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          Would a federation problem on lemmy.world block propagation to slrpnk.net? That would be a weirdly inefficient network design.

          That’s (an example of) what I’m seeing right now. It’s abnormal.

        • moxOP
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          22 months ago

          Hours wouldn’t raise my attention. I’m talking days.

          I think they might be using some weird shit for “last mile”.

          Given that lemmy.world uses Cloudflare, I wonder if their server is overloaded enough to sometimes exceed Cloudflare’s 100 second timeout, triggering http-524 errors during federation.

        • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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          22 months ago

          From experience sh.itjust.works sometimes has this problem as well.

          They also have one thing in common: Cloudflare

          Perhaps it’s getting “protected” from federation considered a DoS.

  • moxOP
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    82 months ago

    Completely off-topic:

    I’m surprised to learn from the comments here that people on other instances subscribe to this sdf-specific community. I have no idea why they would, but it somehow makes me happy.

    • @Linkerbaan
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      32 months ago

      Lemmies front page is not that big.

      • @[email protected]
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        On the contrary, its too much stuff I’m not interested in, and/or actively disinterested in, and not enough of the rest. OTOH, I don’t even remember the exact topic of this community or instance.

        Seems techy and not full of absolute garbage, and that’s more than enough for me.

      • Maeve
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        22 months ago

        Welcome. Have you been in dialogue with them about it?

        • moxOP
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          Welcome, yourself. ;)

          No. I haven’t made an SDF board account, since I’m already overloaded with online accounts. I’m not aware of another way to reach them.

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              The sidebar shows only a moderator. I assume they can see this discussion already, but if you have reason to think they relay problem reports upstream when pinged, I suppose I could ping them.

              • Maeve
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                22 months ago

                A try is the only thing that can beat a fail, I suppose?

                • moxOP
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                  I’ll take that to mean you have no particular reason to think that. As a general rule, I don’t like to poke the mods about operational problems that they are likely already aware of. They’re not sysadmins, after all, and having been in those shoes, I know extra demands for attention can get tiresome.

                  But if this persists for long, I might poke the mod. If other people start noticing it as well, perhaps they will bring it up, too.

  • @[email protected]
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    Seeing this on a random dutch instance I joined when my favorite machinist reddits each chose it. No regerts

    • moxOP
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      12 months ago

      It doesn’t solve this problem, but it could be useful some day. Bookmarked; thanks.