IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR LEMMY.WORLD USERS
IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR LEMMY.WORLD USERS
Hello from across the fediverse!
If you've contributed to the conversation in discussions in this community you may have noticed you weren't getting a lot of interaction (at least from outside your instance: lemmy.world). There are a couple of reasons for this and I will unpin this post when the issues are resolved.
The problem is basically that lemmy.world is sending too many activities for aussie.zone to keep up with, this is mostly due to the latency going from Europe to Sydney. There are some features being developed for Lemmy to hopefully fix this issue (expected in 0.19.5). The delay currently means that activities are taking around 7 days to reach aussie.zone.
The admins of aussie.zone do a great job keeping the instance going as a place for us to gather and discuss Australia and related issues so please do not direct any criticism at them over this. To be able to properly interact with our community I would recommend creating an account on another instance for the time being (as far as I know lemmy.world is the only problematic one).
If you're interested there is currently a discussion ongoing in !meta@aussie.zone (link for aussie.zone users) covering this.
Hello, i'm the admin from monyet.cc, and here we also faced the same problem, with the connection going from Singapore to other side of the planet is sorta hard for us to keep up as well. Lemmy.world traffic is just significantly higher than the second most active lemmy instance, hopefully the future update will solve this issue.
Fellow lemmings who can't read lemmy.world posts (in a timely fashion anyway) of the world UNITE!
If you're down for a bit of tinkering and paying for an additional VPS based in Finland, someone in the thread dhmo linked to wrote some software that can be deployed on a VPS nearer to where Lemmy world's servers are and will send the jobs in batches to your server which will massively help. It seems to be quite a technical and involved process, but if you were able to figure out how to get Lemmy set up, I'm sure you could figure this out too. Otherwise apparently the next major Lemmy upgrade will introduce parallel processing and sending, so that should resolve the problem
More info about the above tool here: https://aussie.zone/comment/9155614
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The delay currently means that activities are taking around 7 days to reach aussie.zone.
That's some mega lag !
I have a couple accounts, one on Lemmy.world so I'll stay away from that.
Cheers for the work and the info.
Basically, jobs are processed in a serial fashion, and each job involves several steps of back and forth communication between the two instances to complete. Add in around the globe latency, and new jobs arrive faster than old jobs can be cleared out of the queue.
This is a test post from an alt account to see if there is still a delay (Sent on 5/6/2024 at 1550 AEST)
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Uuuugh I wanna interact but also I've blocked like a million different pages from my feed and I can't really be bothered to do so again. This sucks.
It's not that bad. So many people being on Lemmy World causes more problems than just this. The point of the fediverse is that things should be more decentralised. But if you don't want to switch to a better instance and can't handle not having your replies read for a week, you can also just block every instance in the southern hemisphere