I have posts and comments on Hexbear from 4 hrs ago that don’t show up

I have a comment on Lemmygrad from 4 hrs ago that doesn’t show up

A recent series of posts from ml to other instances have almost no interaction locally. When viewed remotely, they have higher vote counts (no more comments to compare).

I haven’t extensively looked at the new feed to see if posts are outright missing, but I see the same general pattern spot checking posts that do appear: vote totals much lower than elsewhere, missing comments

I don’t see issues reported on https://phiresky.github.io/lemmy-federation-state/site

i think the image size limit has been reduced some time ago, because of this i’ve encountered various situations where i had to manually compress images to be able to upload them. i think the size limit is at around 800kb, at least based on my experience. is there a way that images could be compress upon upload to avoid this? i genuiley rather have them look like a blurry mess than to have to edit them manually.

I’ve spot checked other new posts too, but am missing two posts here: https://lemmygrad.ml/c/science?dataType=Post&sort=New

A post made from ml has federated to grad in the last hour: https://lemmy.ml/c/science?dataType=Post&sort=New

I’m so confused, I don’t even know where to ask this stuff. Here are my questions, hopefully it helps others in the future:

1. I see a bunch of different “Lemmy’s” here. What are these called? “Flavors” of lemmy? Lemmy “websites”? Lemmy “instances”?

note: I’ll call their collective entirety as “Lemmies”, for the remainder of the post

2. If I created an account here on lemmy.ml, (obamacares), does that account also exist on other “Lemmies”?

3. Do posts and comments on this Lemmy also exist on other Lemmies?

4. If one happens to be banned from a specific Lemmy instance: does one also get banned from other Lemmies?

5. In case the answers to the past 3 questions was “No”: then what is the relationship between the different “Lemmies”?

6. How are those Lemmy websites stored and served? Is it just a machine the person who created the website maintains — or is there more to it? (some kind of decentralized collaborative server pool, or some blockchain stuff, idk)

7. How much “privacy” can I expect inside these Lemmies? For instance, if I talk to some user through dm’s, can anyone else see our messages?

8. If I delete a post or comment: is it gone for good — or will it linger for the eternity in some internet server somewhere?

I probably have more questions, but I forgot now.

Has anyone else noticed that some images are not loading?

EDIT: Definitely a problem with the image proxy.

site was down for a few hours. anyone know why? just curious.

https://lemmy.ml/post/37091903

Post has several comments when viewed on lemmy.world but none on .ml. Any idea? Thanks.

I’ve been seeing lemmy.ml short outages or slowdowns all day. Backend issues? Ddos attack? Any idea? Just wondering. Not a huge issue, keep up the generally good work.

It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it’s users will not be allowed to proceed.

We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.

Recently there seems to be some of misunderstanding what the lemmy.ml instance is about, especially from newer users.

Lemmy.ml has always been a niche site, and it will most likely stay this way. We don’t have any intentions to turn it into a mainstream instance, or set a goal of getting as many users as possible. Our goal is simple: make an instance that people like to use. I would say that we have been successful in this, but obviously it is impossible to satisfy everyone.

The reason for this is that @dessalines and I are paid to develop Lemmy, while donations from lemmy.ml users only make up a negligible part of our income. Besides, having more users would force us to spend more time moderating, and less time for development. Lemmy works quite differently from big tech sites like Reddit in this regard: while they get more money with each extra user through advertising, for us it is the opposite. So we would much rather have a smaller, non-toxic, and friendly userbase, than a large one.

Part of the problem might be that lemmy.ml is described as “flagship instance”, which can certainly be interpreted to mean “mainstream” or “general purpose”. I struggle to come up with a better, more accurate description. If you can think of one, please comment here.

If you dont like the way lemmy.ml works, thats okay. Federation exists exactly to solve that problem, let different groups have their own instances, with their own rules and political views. You can see the list of existing instances, and instructions for setting up a new one on join-lemmy.org.

In particular, I would like to see someone (or a group of people) create a mainstream, or liberal instance. That should help to avoid further drama, and avoid attempts to turn lemmy.ml into something that it is not. @dessalines and I would certainly be willing to help with any technical problems that such an instance runs into, and include it on join-lemmy.org (just like any other instance that meets the code of conduct).