Quite many comments that were over an hour old were missing. I guess there’s a problem with the federation.
I opened an issue on Github about the replication failures of posts and comments between servers. It is not really getting much attention: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101
I think it's just a matter of time before there are alternate-federated networks for Lemmy.... different lists of federated servers that the install peers with.
I’m just curious what my fellow sh.it.heads think of this development in the fediverse, any input is appreciated!
I think performance problems with the Lemmy database lead to a lot more fragmentation... it didn't scale well and instances were telling people to spread around. That and the discovery of remote instances being unintuitive - plus the data replication problems (see: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101) has laid a rather chaotic foundation. People are still trying to get their server installs up and running today, there are a huge number of servers, and I expect when those severs go offline there will be a mess left over of orphan posts, comments, etc.
I don't think anyone planned it this way, they were working for several years to create an alternative to Reddit and you find communities with mods who created them 3 years ago and stopped using Lemmy.... it will be an interesting year, for sure.
Lemmy is having growing pains and there are problems with internal tasks not updating the database correctly plus I'm sure individual instances would want to change some of these parameters to define what is 'active' in terms of age criteria, etc.
Lemmy.ml seems to be hugged - support your local instances!
Keep in mind that the outbound comment/post sending queue is in RAM only and will be lost in 0.17.4 with a restart