Hey everyone. Currently the instance is being affected by a bug that prevents outbound federation. This seems to have started when the instance upgraded to 0.18.5
Im pinning this post in the instance while it is affected by the bug so everyone is aware as this affects everyone in the instance
Theres an open issue on the lemmy github repository and we are attempting to track down why this is happening and fix it
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4039
What the bug means is essentially
- We still get all posts and comments around the fediverse like normal (so youll see posts made in other communities populate the feeds like normal)
- Posts and comments made by users in programming.dev are not visible outside programming.dev
Hopefully itll be resolved soon. If anyones able to get some info that would be helpful towards resolving the bug throw it here or in the github issue
Also adding onto this but there was an issue with the pictrs storage getting full that made the instance offline for a couple days while it affected it and so the instance could be moved to object storage. (communicated about over on the mastodon account since the site was down https://mastodon.social/@programming_dev/111237442491837823). Thats a separate issue from this one (and prevented this from getting tested properly for a bit)
Yes and I have a post that I will make about this in a bit. I’ve been writing it over the past few days, but haven’t had time to finish it up.