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Are there still federation issues? (Almost all content missing in some communities) (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I subscribed to a Lemmy community earlier, and according to the site there are three subscribers to that community here on Kbin, yet content is not showing up here.

Original instance: https://sopuli.xyz/c/progmetal/data_type/Post/sort/New/page/1
Lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]/data_type/Post/sort/New/page/1
Kbin: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/newest

The former two seem identical as far I bothered to check, with 10 posts in the past 20 hours, but Kbin only has one of them (and it's not the oldest or the most recent, either, but the second oldest).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For several days, we had to hide behind Cloudflare, possibly because some instances blocked us. I will verify this, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks! :)

Both my post (9 hours old) and another (21 hours old) seem to have shown up since I created this thread (3 hours ago), so it's at least partially working. Could be that it's just very slow for some reason and that they will show up eventually.

As I'm a hobby programmer I would like to learn more about how this works under the hood, but ActivityPub and related protocols seem a bit overwhelming to get started with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Content will only be forwarded after the first person on an instance subscribes to something.
So you will only see posts in a remote magazine that were made after the first person on your instance subscribed to the magazine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Right, but there have been 3 subscribers since at least yesterday, yet none of the posts since then have shown up. Including the one I made earlier today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

kbin in particular gets overloaded and stuck in federating because of how new it is. This is one of the things @[email protected] is working on (he's the creator of kbin and owner of kbin.social)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

thank you for this comment! I was so confused if being the first subscriber meant that things would fill in from days ago (which they seem to actually have done in one case) or if it would only be new content since then getting brought in (which also hasn't happened in some places, where the original continues to see new posts and I don't get them on kbin)