Federation Issue Resolved!
If you're wondering why it has been looking quiet here, we stumbled upon an issue that caused lemdro.id to stop federating out its community content.
It should now be resolved but please let us know if there are any issues!
What happened to be the problem?
Basically, the lemmy backend service for some reason marked every instance we federated with as inactive, which caused it to stop outbound federation with basically everyone. I have a few working theories on why, but not fully sure yet.
TL;DR lemmy bug, required manual database intervention to fix
This was a stressful start to a vacation!
For a more detailed working theory...
I've been doing a lot of infrastructure upgrades lately. Lemdro.id runs on a ton of containerized services that scale horizontally for each part of the stack globally and according to load. It's pretty cool. But my theory is that since the backend schedules inactive checking for 24 hours from when it starts that it simply was being restarted (upgraded) before it had a chance to check activity until it was too late.
theory:
This isn't really a great design for inactivity checking and I'll be submitting a pull request to fix it.
Thanks for all your hard work!
I suspect the readers are a very technical crowd. I would love to know the details.
For anyone who wants to follow the GitHub issue
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4039#issuecomment-1858728555
fyi, I replied in this thread!
I see. I was concerned about the reduced activity levels overall down to single vote posts.
A welcome back from lemmy.world is in order (Found this via filtering by all instances, not just .wotld and subscribed instances )
Belated thanks!
Glad to have one of my favourite instances back when a vengeance.
BTW @ijeff@lemdro.id can we get the ability to edit our posts please? Way too often I'll submit and then go back and edit to provide more information if the preview falls short, but lemdro.id doesn't allow this.
lemdro.id doesn't disable editing so I'm not sure what you mean
Ah, so that's why! I was worried about the lack of activity around here!