I’ve been monitoring, checking whether my posts or comments appear on external instances, including mastodon, and it doesn’t seem to be happening.

See a prior post of mine where I provided some specific examples: https://lemmy.ml/post/1310621

But generally, it seems you could go through my profile and check any post/comment to an external community.

Obviously this is frustrating to me as a user.

But big picture here is whether this is a generally problem for lemmy.ml as a whole. Other instances seem to be federating just fine, but perhaps something has gone wrong with this server or there’s a bug that has been tripped here that might occur on other instances too.

Edit thanks for all the replies and confirmations of federation working!! Really! Polite and helpful, wonderful to see … hope I didn’t come off as whiny in this post.

I still think there are problems and maybe things getting lost.

Eg: a post on which I commented, viewed on lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/post/1361008, and the posts original location on beehaw https://beehaw.org/post/639764. Mine is the oldest so sorting by old should show it, or in the case of beehaw, not. And just to clarify, lemmy.ml and beehaw still federate.

EDIT2 Did another test, commenting on an external post and it went through immediately. So it seems the issue is intermittent, as other comments have testified. Still might be a problem worth addressing.

  • @Coki91
    6•2 years ago

    I can see this from dormi.zone

  • Meldrik
    2•2 years ago

    I can see your post from lemmy.wtf :)

    Because of the huge influx of new users (and bugs), federation will sometimes lag behind.

  • Maestro
    2•2 years ago

    I see your post from kbin.social (which isn’t even a Lemmy instance)

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die
    2•2 years ago

    I’m on lemmy.world and see your post just fine, with all its comments.

    I also went directly to lemmy.ml to check and I don’t see differences from what I see on lemmy.world, maybe it’s just a delay on federation? Accessing lemmy.ml sometimes give a bad gateway error.

  • ｓｉｌｌｙ . ｌｉｌ . ｊｅｓｔｅｒ
    1•2 years ago

    .ml definitely has a delay. I get your posts (instance’s) periodically flooding my feed when the sync occurs. At least your sync eventually happens. Multiple people in the comments won’t ever see my response. 😅

      • Thorned_Rose
        1•2 years ago

        Also hi from kbin.social

        As others have said, sometimes the federation can take a little while. This is software that’s still in its baby stage. It will get better. It can be frustrating in the mean time but it’s also super cool knowing that you’re seeing the birth of something great and getting to participate in growing the Fediverse 😊

  • CoffeeBlood91
    1•2 years ago

    I noticed this yesterday as well. Made a post from lemmy.ca to lemmy.world I saw on lemmy.ca my post had about 100 upvotes and a bunch of comments.

    Hopped into kbin because everyone kept raving about it, so my post with like 160 upvotes and way more comments.

    Kept hopping back and forth between instances trying to reply to comments that would only appear on Kbin.

    So I created an account on Kbin with the same username so I could reply to comments that didn’t appear on lemmy.ca.

    Kbin.social is definitely the most polished instance right now.

  • @juniper@feddit.uk
    1•2 years ago

    Just seen your post from feddit.uk :) I do agree though, I have an account on feddit and on lemmy.world and when I view the same communities from both accounts I see a totally different number of comments or no comments at all / some posts don’t show up / whatever. There’s definitely some issues going on here and there.

    • Haily
      1•2 years ago

      This. I’m commenting from rblind.com, and yours is the only comment I’m seeing, pun not intended. I hadn’t really noticed this until now, I just assumed Lemmy wasn’t all that popular yet. I’m guessing I’d see no comments whatsoever if I wasn’t subscribed to communities on feddit.uk.