If my server goes down and someone posts from their instance onto my com does it still work for them then later federate to me?
If my server goes down and someone posts from their instance onto my com does it still work for them then later federate to me?
Yeah. There's a retry queue, which does expire after a certain time period, but for a short outage that's how it'd work.
Do you know about how long it is?
I don't recall exactly, but it's more like days rather than hours. At some point the instances will mark you as down, and then stop trying to federate with you, so there's a hard limit but it's fairly generous and not especially aggressive.
I found the PR for the queue, and it mentions retries but doesn't seem to mention exact timing, at least to my quick read. ( https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3605 )