Cross post from lemmy.ml - https://lemmy.ml/post/2640822
Been experimenting and reviewing why our community based on lemmy.world is super active across Lemmy & Mastodon is dead on lemmy.ml - not sure if it's a lemmy.world issue, lemmy.ml issue, or lemmy in general issue so crossposting.
See the screenshots.
Basically, people posting to [email protected] from lemmy.world or other instances all seem to work well, even going to Mastodon with no issues.
But lemmy.ml doesn’t seem to be seeing many of the post and is slow to update things like pinned posts.
Nor does lemmy.ml posts to the community seem to be going to Mastodon.
Challenging to build a community on Lemmy when one of the big instances can’t see many of the posts making an active community of over 1500 users seem dead.
lemmy.ml view: https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]
lemmy.world view: https://lemmy.world/c/alternativenation
mstdn.social view: https://mstdn.social/@[email protected]
@[email protected] contacted me about an issue with federation, seems we blocked an IP too many in our attempt to block malicious requests.. I've removed that block and federation works again. Sorry about the inconvenience.
Appreciate the honesty and transparency. I imagine running this is a wee bit stressful, so sharing those lessons really helps to stick with it and appreciate the journey.