I’ve been seeing this for quite a bit, and thought it’d resolve itself once CloudFlare was taken off, but I’m still seeing it on many external communities from e.g. Lemmy. Not all posts or comments are visible from Kbin. Any idea on what’s going on?

Edit, clarification: when I visit e.g., https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] the above mentioned sentence shows up, and I’m not able to see threads created even 13 hrs ago, like this one on the original instance https://beehaw.org/post/927935?scrollToComments=true. New content doesn’t seem to be pushed to this instance at kbin.social. This is the issue I’m referring to.

Edit 2: This is probably the answer: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/131241/What-s-up-with-The-magazine-from-the-federated-server-may#entry-comment-517045

  • Treedrake@kbin.socialOP
    1·
    1 year ago

    So it’s basically working as intended? It does feel like an annoying “issue” though. Thanks for explaining anyhow!

    • dannekrose@kilioa.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      @Treedrake

      You’re welcome!

      Yes, it is working as intended. The idea is that each instance is responsible for pushing content once, then it’s the responsibility of the receiving instance to process and display the content to the relevant users/accounts.

      As a side note, if everything was “re-pushed” out, the load becomes even more on the “source of truth” for larger communities with wide federation and a lot of new content generated locally and remotely. I could see this being leveraged to take down servers by simply spamming really large communities (with large federation) with small content forcing the “source of truth” to now “re-push” the content to every server that is knows about for every single new comment, or reply, or post.