Lemmy.world is very popular, and one of the largest instances. They do a great job with moderation. There’s a lot of positives with lemmy.world

Recently, over the last month, federation issues have become more and more drastic. Some comments from lemmy.world take days, or never, synchronize with other instances.

The current incarnation of activity pub as implemented in Lemmy has rate issues with a very popular instance. So now lemmy.world is becoming a island. This is bad because it fractures the discussion, and encourages more centralization on Lemmy.world which actually weakens the ability of the federated universe to survive a single instance failing or just turning off.

For the time being, I encourage everyone to post to communities hosted on other instances so that the conversation can be consistently access by people across the entire Fediverse. I don’t think it’s necessary to move your user account, because your client will post to the host instance of a community when you make a comment in that community I believe.

Update: other threads about the delays Great writeup https://lemmy.world/post/13967373

Other people having the same issue: https://lemmy.world/post/15668306 https://aussie.zone/comment/9155614 https://lemmy.world/post/15654553 https://lemmy.world/post/15634599 https://aussie.zone/comment/9103641

  • jet@hackertalks.comOP
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    6 months ago

    I realized the irony of posting this on unpopular opinions hosted on lemmy.world, which is actually demonstrating the issue!

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    The problem is how Lemmy itself was built.

    Decentralization should be a background thing with hosts providing server space like you would get from a service like AWS and the front end being a single website with users not knowing on which server their content is hosted and backed up.

    • JonsJava@lemmy.worldM
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      6 months ago

      As a DevOps Architect, let me make it simple:

      With a single front-end, you have a bottleneck. If you have one domain (website) that everybody goes to to get to the front-end, that means that domain is the single point of failure.

      In my line of work, we use load balancers and sub-domains to divide the work and provide resilience (High Availability), but at the end of the day, if the DNS for that site goes down, we’re down.

      Also, as Jet mentioned, whomever whoever controls the domain (website) controls the content. You can’t have multiple groups controlling a single domain. Whomever buys it controls it. If they don’t like content, they could easily block access to it.

      I’m oversimplifying the inner workings, so if you want more details, let me know.

      EDIT: subtext called me out on my crap English. Have nobody to blame but myself. English is my first language.

      • subtext@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I just want to let you know that “whom” is only ever used as an object. In your sentences, I think you should have used “whoever”.

        The easiest way to remember which you should use is to think about the difference between s/he==who and her/him==whom.

        She gave the ball to him Who gave the ball to whom

        She controls the domain Who controls the domain

        The domain is controlled by him The domain is controlled by whom