Are posts submitted from kbin.social visible on lemmy.ml?
Specifically, I'm trying to post (an image) to boston@lemmy.ml from my account on kbin.social. The post shows up on kbin.social, but when I go to https://lemmy.ml/c/boston, it doesn't seem to be there. Is there something special I need to do to ensure it's viewable?
it looks like it's federating, but with a delay. the post I've sent from kbin to Beehaw's community wasn't visible on their website yesterday, but it did sync overnight.
Looks like new communities/magazines aren't federating out, either. :-\
Few related questions for anyone knowledgeable about the fediverse:
If the original instance in which a community was created is no longer running will that community disappear as well? For example, will @kbinMeta@kbin.social live on if kbin.social proper dies one day?
How are duplicate communities handled? Ie, @misc@kbin.social vs @misc@beehaw.org vs @misc.lemmy.*? Unless there's something to reconcile differences between these I can see this becoming very messy and hard for non-techies to understand.
Messages via Reddit etc are nearly real-time because of the centralized platform, but I can't see how federated content can behave the same. How are time lags related to federated content propagation handled? Are they common? I can't imagine all these instances sharing information super rapidly on the back-end is simple or inexpensive (CPU/bandwidth/$). Say some post on one instance generates a lot of replies, how quickly will everyone see those replies across other instances? For example, if I were to post "I have 60 seconds to disarm this bomb, which wire do I cut? help!" on kbin and someone replies in 34 seconds after my post is visible on beehaw, what are my chances of being blown up?
I can't even register for lemmy or beehaw, I just get an endless loop on my attempts to sign up and the Lemmy.ml main page says their servers are overloaded.
i haven't had any problems all day on lemmy.world. however, it did take me 2 days to sign up. btw, the admin added 2 new admins and upgraded the server today (technically yesterday Jun 10).
Yeah as the flagship server and then the one recommended because the first got too full, those two might not be taking any more people for the time being. It's one to keep the servers from being hugged to death and two hopefully to encourage others to spin up an instance and share the load/keep from centralizing in one place.
The natural response for most new users will be to join already large servers, which is exactly what we don't want here. I learned that only recently (am a new user myself). Perhaps we should consider a line on the join-lemmy server list that says as much. Otherwise people will probably keep flooding the flagships and our rate of user growth will be severely hampered.
At least if we put a warning on the server list we're at least filtering out users that don't read.
I had a similar issue/question - I tried to post a comment on a lemmy.world post using a kbin.social account, I can see it on kbin.social but when I go to the actual post on lemmy.world, my comment was not there. Am I doing something wrong?
The connection between the two might be overloaded currently. I have checked that comments from my kbin.social account to lemmy.ml posts are showing up on lemmy.ml, so I know that at least is working for me.
kbin threads should be the equivalent of lemmy posts. Microblogging posts here are the equivalent of Mastodon posts.
I'm left wondering if the servers are just struggling to keep up with the load. When Twitter users flooded Mastodon, post syncing got hours behind schedule. Or maybe something's just bugging out.
Kbin.social is now the largest single Reddit clone on the Fediverse IIRC.
Lemmy is still bigger if you combine all the instances, but Kbin is the largest single instance. Kbin hasn't really seen other instances be created yet though (anecdotally, I hit some snags trying to get my own instance set up).
Might it have something to do with the type of content?
I noticed, looking in your profile that KBin refers to your boston content as a 'thread' while lemmy calls such things posts.
There are 'posts' in kbin, so maybe you need to make a new 'post' on kbin.
That's possible! I thought that could be the issue. I was a bit confused because it looks like "posts" are put in the "microblog" category on kbin which I thought loosely corresponds to Mastadon-style posts. But maybe I'm wrong...
I think the intermittence of kbin also affects the propagation of posts/comments. However it seems like we are getting an upgrade soon to handle so many new users.
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