So some people theorized its a .17.4 vs .18.0 bug.
But I just tried a test crosspost to technology@kbin.social and my post is failing to go through. I think there's clearly some kind of massive federation-bug on Lemmy.world in general going on.
Or maybe its on the other server's ends, who knows? Either way, its a problem IMO. We're fine as long as we're posting locally, but the minute we try to interact with lemmy.ca, kbin.social and some other instances, the federation protocol is really messing up right now.