Hey everyone. Currently the instance is being affected by a bug that prevents outbound federation. This seems to have started when the instance upgraded to 0.18.5
Im pinning this post in the instance while it is affected by the bug so everyone is aware as this affects everyone in the instance
Theres an open issue on the lemmy github repository and we are attempting to track down why this is happening and fix it
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4039
What the bug means is essentially
- We still get all posts and comments around the fediverse like normal (so youll see posts made in other communities populate the feeds like normal)
- Posts and comments made by users in programming.dev are not visible outside programming.dev
Hopefully itll be resolved soon. If anyones able to get some info that would be helpful towards resolving the bug throw it here or in the github issue
All related I’m sure but just noting this for the record based on what I’ve experienced:
- making a user a mod of a community that’s located on another instance is not federating
- mod log changes are not federating
- changing the icon for a community on another instance is not federating
- post deletion on a community from another instance is not federating
- user profile changes are not federating to other instances
- outbound comments are not federating to other instances
Important to note that if you search for a direct post link from another instance using the URL search, it triggers outbound federation for that post and the post becomes visible to all other instances.
