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Is there an issue with federation right now? (pawb.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Kovukono@pawb.social to c/meta@pawb.social

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The only new posts that are coming up are from lemmit.online, or posts from a couple Mastodon users. This is the last exception I could find. Checking lemmy.world shows there should be new posts coming in, but they're not showing up.

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[–] crashdoom@pawb.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Morning all! It does appear like we're not getting some instances posts (you can find a list by using https://phiresky.github.io/lemmy-federation-state/site?domain=pawb.social). I'm currently investigating and I appreciate folks poking on this :3

[–] crashdoom@pawb.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Restarting the federation pods appears to have at least lowered the failure queue a little, but it's showing that while we've sent things to lemmit.online (as the example), it hasn't seen anything from them since 4/14/2025, 10:14:27 PM. So I'm presuming the next time they try to sync and send something to us it SHOULD update...

The federation state checker seems to be indicating that we're not behind in sending them posts anymore so outgoing should be fixed, but I'm unsure how to troubleshoot incoming further. I'm wondering if there's a bug with the latest version of Lemmy?

[–] crashdoom@pawb.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Update: Turns out a security feature we enabled to block "AI Bots" (like ChatGPT) was blocking federation traffic... Since it's affecting stuff right now, I've disabled it again until I can get time after LVFC to take a look into building a comprehensive "allow list" of different federation traffic headers.

tl;dr Give it a little bit and things should hopefully catch up with new posts, but I don't know if Lemmy post-syncs old posts without someone searching for them on our instance.

[–] Kovukono@pawb.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for fixing it!

[–] l_b_i@pawb.social 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'll comment outbound seems off too. I checked from lemmy.world and new stuff from here is missing.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

We've been banished to the shadow realm :(

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

We'll be alright!

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

There's no group of folks I'd rather be stuck in the shadow realm with. <3

[–] Foxfire@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

I was wondering why I wasn't seeing new posts from 196 in local lol. Yeah, just checked some big instances and clearly we aren't getting their posts. Hopefully it will be resolved soon and we can get caught up!

[–] macji@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did we get defederated?

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Not from any instances I checked, no. Appears to be some kind of bug or issue on the server.