It took me 4 months of heavy (like every day readying t least 2 hours a day) to get 10% of the way done with the Wandering inn. God damn is this a huge series.

Im about to get the new Dungeon Crawler Carl book today woo!! Ill be switching for a while there.

Dang…

Hope they come back soon. ;(

Heh coo.

Any idea if SDF is coming back? Loved that lemmy instance and the community around it.

Essentailly. Theres a couple of peertube instances that had that issue if i recall. Filters started to go up a coupke of years ago. Admins can see it pretty easy in the logs most of the time once its pointed out. Its a timing thing. Some software is beyter at it than others.

Same fantastic one liners.

Good questions. Its been a bit since ive looked at lemmys code so im going to dive in again.

Here is the docs for the votes themselves. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/blob/main/src/users/03-votes-and-ranking.md

You can see this in action here: https://lemvotes.org/ if I recall.

I know the vote model is here . You can see the logic here. It checks to see if the post is actually available in the community with other functions and other such checks. It doesnt ask any lemmy instance for totals (unless theres something im not aware of), it tallies based on real time data. Which can also include fediverse actions(not necessarily lemmy/piefed/mbin/etc… but also mastodon, gotosocial, and other such services).

One of the things piefed does a bit differently is it bunches up votes for sending to other instances. And there is a backfill operation when puling from new communities or users. I would argue its a bit better than lemmys system at least from a technical perspective. But its a VERY minor one. Its nice we have multiple ways of getting to the same result-ish.

Hope that helps! I dont know everything but I know a little bit.

It would be VERY difficult. I have no idea what im looking for other than the delay or block. And im not seeing anything today. If you can give me an example, I can check in and reproduce. Otherwise its nettle/haystack.

It might very well be a bug.

I can see it being frustrating. But thats what community software is. The good news is that even just reporting the issue can help us all out!

Yep i can. Ive helped out on both lemmy, piefed, mastodon, gotosocial, peertube and others. Little things mind but yeah its my day job.

Theres a queue that is part of different instances. What can happen is posts/comments get backed up and the queue takes them all in. When an outage or slowdown happens it can bog down certain servers. Threadiverse (piefes/lemmy/mbin/etc…) up/down votes, comments, posts, etc… it gets slower as more instances connect to others. Its unfortunate but its part of the fediverse protocol. Piefed has some advances there, but it can still get bogged down sometimes.

Im not saying thats definitively what it is, but ive been on the other side of this phenomenon a couple of times when my lemmy and then later piefed instance had a new instance sync with it. Lemmy.world has had this issue for a while since its one of the biggest.

The way to test is to sent the instance in quesion a POST request with a comment OR use a known good instance (like piefed) and check the logs. It usually comes back with either a 200 immediately (which is good) or theres a HUGE delay.

Most of these instances are very much volunteer efforts.

Can you elaborate? Arent blocks public via the admin logs in lemmy? In addition that info can be pulled from the api from any instance/fediverse protocol.

I can reproduce of need be since i have my own lemmy and piefed instance and have over 20 years of software development experience.

I dont understand. Can you point to where in the code it has this? The algorithm/stack is open to anyone.

How would that work?

We are all on different instances. With different algorithms, technology, and differing filters. The code doesnt support what your saying.

Yeah im seeing it lol.

Datacenters are going to heat up the us so much. Thats exceptionally bad for the people and environment around them.

Agreed!

Really? Cause im seeing new stuff all the time. Maybe you need to find more things to subscribe to? Piefed hasva ton they give you the option to subscribe to as well as feeds (groups of like communities you can subscribe to).

I had one. It was great.

I agree. Thats mostly how I use it too. But I cant see most users doing what we do.

But for some people hooking up to their local library, getting their books they paid for online, and other such features are what they use their ebook reader for. Its more convienant for them, so loosing capability just cause Amazon wants more $$ is more what this indvidual is talking about.

Thanks for sharing. Different devices mean different things to people. And people can get weirdly attached to them. Im not immune, I still have my first tape player. Its a clock now, since the batteries last for years.

I personally think its a combo of the “new” services attached to a monthly payment, owning something “real” like a cassette/disk/etc…etc…, and the price being VERY cheap for music. For the price of one spotify subscription, you can go to a small music store and get a metric ton of old music. And trade with your friends. Just my 2 cents.

Looks neat! https://www.heyvictorfrost.com/workshop/Community_hub_V1

Nice I too use Calibre for everything!