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Outbound Federation Fixed (programming.dev)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hey everyone, update on https://programming.dev/post/4613085

We did some changes in the database and it seems like outbound federation is working again. If you run into any more problems with it let us know.

Im pinning this post for around a day to let everyone know since we had the last post pinned for a bit

Any posts or comments made while it was broken still wont be federated but new ones should be. The instance essentially marked all other instances as dead which meant it thought it didn't have to send things to them

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

We appreciate you!!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the hard work!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also to show thats its working heres this post on lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/post/7091281

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the update dude! Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Donut of appreciation attached below:

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Haha now the rest of the fediverse is subject to my stupid comments!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Glad you all are back!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Curiosity, was it not loading the custom config?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It doesn't seem to be entirely fixed.

See: https://programming.dev/post/4742348 vs https://lemmy.world/post/7155747

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Everything seems to be fine in the database so not sure why that wouldnt propagate. Ill do some testing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Looks like that post was made when federation was broken (there was a small window 14 days ago when it went down again) so itll still have issues with federating comments. Recent posts and comments in the community seem to still be fine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My reply from my programming.dev account to the person on Lemmy.world was made yesterday. It still hasn't propagated.

I had to reply using my Lemmy.world account. That reply federated to programming.dev. It looks like it's going in one direction only?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

yeah federation broke one way only when it was broken. Replies on broken posts from here wont propagate no matter when its done

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] Outgoing federation to reddthat.com seems to still be broken (or broken again?) - yesterday I had to search for a post there to make it show up, and I've just posted a comment that also isn't appearing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

yeah it broke again for a bit, getting that up rn. Seems to be that the instance isnt automatically marking things alive so after 3 days everything is marked as dead again

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is it a problem their end or this end? I thought the issue was that the outgoing server (ours, in this case) wasn't federating things outwards because it mistakenly believed the recipient was dead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

yeah its our end and thats why. Federation should be fixed now (things posted when down wont be federated still but new things will. Were setting up a cron job now to get this updated every day so it shouldnt be a problem any more)

After 3 days of no response lemmy considers things dead but the issue is is its not checking for a response

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ok, thanks for that, I think I just misunderstood which instance you were talking about when you said "the instance".

A related question you might be able to answer: if I search from the recipient's end and pull over a post that way, is it then federated out by that recipient instance? Or is it better to just delete and repost?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I am not sure. It might just be best to try. Federation should be very quick these days so if you're not seeing something in a minute or two then something is most likely wrong.