hawkwind

In the main search you have to scroll to the bottom for community results AND the results are asynchronous, meaning they will populate slowly and get added on your results page as remote servers return. Sometimes it can take 30 seconds or more. :(

I’d like to see or make a tool that measures “federation” quality.

Lots of servers are locally responsive, but lag or completely fail posting to remote servers or accepting remote requests.

How can i participate in a conversation when half of the instances are hours behind or may not get my comments at all :(

This seems to be a combination of software and load and it is very insidious because it doesn’t affect local functionality so admins that don’t care or check think their communities are just fine.

Crab people.. crab people.. 🎵

For whatever reason, I couldn’t get deletion to work on sh.it.works either. Not sure if technical problem or by design.

Isn’t it only if you have something configured in display name?

It’s not just a bug in the code. There are some scalability issues at play. Federation breaks silently (as in the user experience doesn’t change) under heavy load. Lemmy.world came up with a solution, but Lemmy.ml has yet to do anything. Upgrading helps with similar and other issues but doesn’t completely solve the servers being overwhelmed.

Correct. All also includes communities fetched but not subscribed to, however these are more like stubs. They are in your database but not being updated with activity since no one is subscribed. At least that’s my understanding.

You should be able to rerun it anytime. It only gets stuff that doesn’t exist on your instance. That’s how it was designed. It is dependent on browse.feddit.de however. :(

Your account@lemmy.world would disappear yes, but you could create account@other.server.

https://github.com/jheidecker/lemmony

https://github.com/jheidecker/lemmony

You could report an unmoderated community to an admin. I would imagine most reasonable admin's would give the mod plenty of time to respond. Other than that, just make your community on a different instance and post a link in the dead moderators shell.