How does federation actually work? - eviltoast

…and why is it often PAINFULLY slow to acknowledge an up/down vote or to open the reply dialog?

  • Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 months ago

    Everything you do on your own instance is against a cached version of the original post that is saved on your instance. Your instance sends updates in the background, the other instance can be entirely down and you can still browse, comment, and vote as normal on your own. The updates will just stay local though.

    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
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      11 months ago

      There seems to be a federation bug on version 0.19.x too.

      My posts gets like 1-2 upvotes since I upgraded versus 10-20 before. I just hope the posts get out there…

      • Ategon@programming.dev
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        11 months ago

        its fixable temporarily by restarting the server

        I just have a cron job set up to do that every day