How does federation actually work?
How does federation actually work?
...and why is it often PAINFULLY slow to acknowledge an up/down vote or to open the reply dialog?
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If you're replying to a community on your home server, all actions should be similar levels of responsiveness, I think replying to another servers community may involve "some" active communication with the instance? Simple way to test this, if you are replying a lot on to another servers community, since you are browsing anyway, would be to just open the server/community directly and click around, if it's feels a bit slow, then that server is overloaded by a bit and that's probably the source of your issue. Otherwise we need someone with deeper knowledge in this thread.
Everything you do on your own instance is against a cached version of the original post that is saved on your instance. Your instance sends updates in the background, the other instance can be entirely down and you can still browse, comment, and vote as normal on your own. The updates will just stay local though.
There seems to be a federation bug on version 0.19.x too.
My posts gets like 1-2 upvotes since I upgraded versus 10-20 before. I just hope the posts get out there...
its fixable temporarily by restarting the server
I just have a cron job set up to do that every day