I swear I’ve only seen meta posts talking about all the cats. I haven’t seen a single non-meta cat post.
Update (2024-11-23T01:52Z):
It turns out that, to see the cats, one must sort by “Hot” [1]. I was sorting by “All” + “Active”, but, to see the cats, I must sort “All” + “Hot”.
[…] Active prioritizes many comments iirc, but on most of these posts I see few if any comments. Using Hot though, they can dominate a feed due to being highly upvoted.
You, like every other non-Lemmy.World instance right now, seem to be having massive federation issues, since if you view the community at the source there are a flood of cat pics, which SJW seems to know nothing about.
It’s not the only one. Aussie.zone, being geographically far away from Lemmy.World, has suffered greatly for like six months already. And even my prior instance Discuss.Online that was so on the ball seems to have fallen prey eventually - unless that was just a gap during its upgrade to 0.19.7.
e.g. here’s a post with ~185 upvotes, though when viewed from Lemmy.world it shows 192 up and 2 down, so 190 total, but the real trick is that when viewed from discuss.online it has only 97 upvotes - that’s almost half of them they got lost!?!?!? And that’s nothing: check out the post when viewed from StarTrek.website, with zero additional upvotes (beyond the default first one) and also no comments visible on it as well.
As we see there it is not just votes - it is also comments, and as we are discussing here about cats, while entire posts too (although sometimes those catch up, whenever someone votes or comments on it later on and that triggers the entire post to have another chance to federate to an instance that would have skipped it otherwise). This level of lack of proper federation is enough to have killed off Lemmy entirely imho, even if that process took several months, if it weren’t for the fact that a fix has already been deployed and we are all just waiting for Lemmy.World to upgrade to it on 0.19.6 or its follow-up bugfix 0.19.7.
Yeah it looks fixed now. I went to !cats@lemmy.world and counted 10 posts from the last 3 hours, then viewed the community from SJW and it too has 10 posts from the last 3 hours.
So… are you enjoying the cats flooding your feed now?:-D Or if you aren’t seeing them, it must be for some other reason now.
we’re currently aware of delayed federation from lemmy.ml towards lemmy.world and still working identifying the root cause - see https://lemmy.world/post/22196027 (still needs updating that it’s happening again).
aussie.zone has been about 6 weeks behind lemmy.world for a few weeks i think at this point, which at least means they’re no longer losing activities, but it’s still taking ages to reduce the lag.
i don’t know what issue there might be with discuss.online right now, but for startrek.website the explanation is rather simple. as you can see in the sidebar, there are 0 local subscribers for the community. when there aren’t any subscribers to a community on an instance, the instance will not receive any updates for posts in that community. this includes posts, comments, as well as votes.
startrek.website also had federation issues over the last weeks due to accidentally blocking lemmy instances in some situations.
lemdro.id has recently had some db performance issues that caused it to get around 3d behind lemmy.world, they’ve been slowly catching up again over the last days.
Thanks for the info! If discuss.online was out for a few hours, would that explain the missing content, if it happened during the outage and so it just gets lost forever, or given enough time will it catch up?
Do you know when Lemmy.World plans to update to 0.19.6 or 0.19.7? I really hope that helps bring stability! Although I can understand not wanting to do it at the same time as the sync issue with lemmy.ml still happening.
downtime should not result in missing content when the sending instance is lemmy 0.19.0 or newer. 0.19.0 introduced a persistent federation queue in lemmy, which means it will retry sending the same stuff until the instance is available. depending on the type of down, it can also be possible that there is a misconfiguration (e.g. “wrong” http status code on a maintenance page) that could make the sending instance think it was successfully sent. if the sending instance was unreachable (timeout) or throwing http 5xx errors, everything should be preserved.
we are planning to post an announcement about the current situation with lemmy updates and our future plans in the coming days, stay tuned for that. you can find some info in my comment history already if you are curious.
I swear I’ve only seen meta posts talking about all the cats. I haven’t seen a single non-meta cat post.
Update (2024-11-23T01:52Z): It turns out that, to see the cats, one must sort by “Hot” [1]. I was sorting by “All” + “Active”, but, to see the cats, I must sort “All” + “Hot”.
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Same, and I usually just browse TopDay.
Never mind, hadn’t scrolled down far enough, now they’re coming through.
You might have federation issues (or blocked the right/wrong people/communities/instances).
There are loads of cats…
Perhaps SJW is having federation issues. Anything related to personal blocks would be extremely unlikely, in my case.
The only cats I gave seen so far in my feed are maybe 3 from !cat@lemmy.world.
Update (2024-11-23T00:44Z): It appears that SJW is fine. See my comment here for more details.
You, like every other non-Lemmy.World instance right now, seem to be having massive federation issues, since if you view the community at the source there are a flood of cat pics, which SJW seems to know nothing about.
It looks like SJW is fine. See my comment here for more details.
ShitJustWorks is probably the issue, I don’t see it either
Edit: no idea what replies mean I still hardly understand this platform lol
It doesn’t appear to be [1]:
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It’s not the only one. Aussie.zone, being geographically far away from Lemmy.World, has suffered greatly for like six months already. And even my prior instance Discuss.Online that was so on the ball seems to have fallen prey eventually - unless that was just a gap during its upgrade to 0.19.7.
e.g. here’s a post with ~185 upvotes, though when viewed from Lemmy.world it shows 192 up and 2 down, so 190 total, but the real trick is that when viewed from discuss.online it has only 97 upvotes - that’s almost half of them they got lost!?!?!? And that’s nothing: check out the post when viewed from StarTrek.website, with zero additional upvotes (beyond the default first one) and also no comments visible on it as well.
As we see there it is not just votes - it is also comments, and as we are discussing here about cats, while entire posts too (although sometimes those catch up, whenever someone votes or comments on it later on and that triggers the entire post to have another chance to federate to an instance that would have skipped it otherwise). This level of lack of proper federation is enough to have killed off Lemmy entirely imho, even if that process took several months, if it weren’t for the fact that a fix has already been deployed and we are all just waiting for Lemmy.World to upgrade to it on 0.19.6 or its follow-up bugfix 0.19.7.
See my comment.
Yeah it looks fixed now. I went to !cats@lemmy.world and counted 10 posts from the last 3 hours, then viewed the community from SJW and it too has 10 posts from the last 3 hours.
So… are you enjoying the cats flooding your feed now?:-D Or if you aren’t seeing them, it must be for some other reason now.
I’m not sure. Maybe the volume of cats has just been exaggerated? Sorting all+active only shows 1 cat in the first 80 posts that I looked at.
we’re currently aware of delayed federation from lemmy.ml towards lemmy.world and still working identifying the root cause - see https://lemmy.world/post/22196027 (still needs updating that it’s happening again).
aussie.zone has been about 6 weeks behind lemmy.world for a few weeks i think at this point, which at least means they’re no longer losing activities, but it’s still taking ages to reduce the lag.
i don’t know what issue there might be with discuss.online right now, but for startrek.website the explanation is rather simple. as you can see in the sidebar, there are 0 local subscribers for the community. when there aren’t any subscribers to a community on an instance, the instance will not receive any updates for posts in that community. this includes posts, comments, as well as votes.
startrek.website also had federation issues over the last weeks due to accidentally blocking lemmy instances in some situations.
lemdro.id has recently had some db performance issues that caused it to get around 3d behind lemmy.world, they’ve been slowly catching up again over the last days.
Thanks for the info! If discuss.online was out for a few hours, would that explain the missing content, if it happened during the outage and so it just gets lost forever, or given enough time will it catch up?
Do you know when Lemmy.World plans to update to 0.19.6 or 0.19.7? I really hope that helps bring stability! Although I can understand not wanting to do it at the same time as the sync issue with lemmy.ml still happening.
downtime should not result in missing content when the sending instance is lemmy 0.19.0 or newer. 0.19.0 introduced a persistent federation queue in lemmy, which means it will retry sending the same stuff until the instance is available. depending on the type of down, it can also be possible that there is a misconfiguration (e.g. “wrong” http status code on a maintenance page) that could make the sending instance think it was successfully sent. if the sending instance was unreachable (timeout) or throwing http 5xx errors, everything should be preserved.
we are planning to post an announcement about the current situation with lemmy updates and our future plans in the coming days, stay tuned for that. you can find some info in my comment history already if you are curious.
It could also be the type of sorting you are using. I was seeing lots of cats, and my settings are
I usually alternate between subscribed+scaled, and all+active. In both I see pretty much nothing.