Lemmy.world is very popular, and one of the largest instances. They do a great job with moderation. There’s a lot of positives with lemmy.world

Recently, over the last month, federation issues have become more and more drastic. Some comments from lemmy.world take days, or never, synchronize with other instances.

The current incarnation of activity pub as implemented in Lemmy has rate issues with a very popular instance. So now lemmy.world is becoming a island. This is bad because it fractures the discussion, and encourages more centralization on Lemmy.world which actually weakens the ability of the federated universe to survive a single instance failing or just turning off.

For the time being, I encourage everyone to post to communities hosted on other instances so that the conversation can be consistently access by people across the entire Fediverse. I don’t think it’s necessary to move your user account, because your client will post to the host instance of a community when you make a comment in that community I believe.

Update: other threads about the delays Great writeup https://lemmy.world/post/13967373

Other people having the same issue: https://lemmy.world/post/15668306 https://aussie.zone/comment/9155614 https://lemmy.world/post/15654553 https://lemmy.world/post/15634599 https://aussie.zone/comment/9103641

  • Kecessa
    2·
    6 months ago

    In this case the solution, as I mentioned in other comments, is to make the back end the decentralized database that’s accessible to anyone so the people developing a front end don’t host the data and you can use any of the available front ends to connect to your account as it’s not attached to any specific front end (your info is in the database).

    Front end devs would be competing to provide the best UI/UX, but in the end everyone would have access to the same data and front end devs couldn’t get in the way of the data or if they did then people could just go to another website without losing anything.