I just realized that none of the comments or posts I made in the last week from my instance are getting to lemmy.world.

I went to see if I my instance was defederated. No, still showing as connected.

I then went to see if I got blocked or banned. Nope, my username is not showing up in the modlog anywhere.

Is it because my instance is small? I guess not, because I can interact with people and communities from anywhere else just fine.

At the moment, the only plausible explanation I have is that lemmy.world is overwhelmed and dropping messages from smaller instances. They do however everything in their power to keep more users coming up.

Yeah, I get that they were being attacked. I can only imagine that getting DDOS’d is not fun, and worrying about the Schmoes on the smaller instances is not a top concern.

But even in the middle of these constant outages and attacks, the lemmy.world admins are still keeping registrations open? Why? Wouldn’t it be better if they encouraged the users to move out of the instance to reduce the load? Isn’t the whole point of decentralized technologies to be, you know, decentralized?

I shouldn’t have to come here, create an account and make things even more centralized just so that I can tell people that this attitude is hurting the fediverse.

I wouldn’t be so pissed at this if it weren’t for the fact that some many communities were created here and is making this particular instance a crucial part of the fediverse, but the admins seems to be more worried about getting their user count up than the health of the overall system.

Please, admins, the more you go with this unstable federation and open registrations, the more of an incentive you are creating to centralize this further here. Help the fediverse and help yourselves. Close down registrations and focus on ensuring that everyone can access the communities that are being formed here.

  • youarehurtingthefediverse@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    214·
    1 year ago

    My instance is not meant to be “popular”. It’s just for me and some friends, it’s federating just fine, I can receive all the posts but whatever I write does not get here.

    • Antik 👾@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      1 year ago

      I understand. Send it to me in PM sonwe can investigate. This will be kept private.

      Edit: so far I have not received anything from this user so I don’t think getting this resolved is the primary objective.

      • youarehurtingthefediverse@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        18·
        1 year ago

        You don’t need my instance to help me here. I already asked: can I just take the comment from https://lemmy.world/u/Wander@yiffit.net as an indication that I can bump the updated value in the instance record? If I run something like UPDATE instance SET updated = 'NOW()' WHERE domain = 'lemmy.world', will the communication be re-established?

        • Antik 👾@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Technically that should work.

          And the reason I asked for your instance name is so we could check this in our db table or check if your instance IP didn’t end up on our banlist.

            • Antik 👾@lemmy.worldEnglish
              10·
              1 year ago

              No this is done on the webserver not in Lemmy. And these are not “instances” specifically these are IP’s who are overloading the API’s with expensive requests.

              • youarehurtingthefediverse@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                14·
                1 year ago

                Aside from version updates, I haven’t changed my server setup since I set it up months ago, and my instance has only a handful of active users. Only two of them subscribed to !fediverse.

                Also, keep in mind that I am receiving updates just fine (maybe with some delay) the problem is that nothing I post on the lemmy.world communities end up visible here.

                • Little1Lost@feddit.deEnglish
                  7·
                  1 year ago

                  the more i read here the more i wish that you simply message the mods in private and give them stuff like the instance name.
                  They have NO reason to dox you.
                  From what i got you guessed the issue by testing around on YOUR side. You dont know anything about their side so you cant 100% identify the problem.
                  If you want to have the conversations outside of Lemmy i am sure that they would accept if you create a throw away matrix account and talk over this.

                  The issue you have others could have too and if you are not able to talk about it with others could have propblems too.
                  I mean it could be some weird bug that no one else discovered so far.

                  What would really help if you speak with the other devs, only talk about facts (not assumptions based on facts, that are still assumptions), stay calm and hydrated

                  • youarehurtingthefediverse@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                    18·
                    1 year ago

                    They have NO reason to dox you.

                    If I get into details to explain why they do have reason to dox me, it could be used to dox me. Kind of tricky and maybe I’m being paranoid, but I don’t want to risk it.