[Solved] Unable to reply to users from kbin.social
I have noticed this couple of times, I can't reply to users from kbin.social. The loader keeps spinning, and if you refresh, the reply doesn't show.
Is this a known issue, or just some random network / system load issue?
Solution (also posted as a comment below)
Select ‘English’ as the language for the reply, otherwise it won’t post to any instance that doesn’t have ‘undetermined’ in the languages or to kbin.social account.
A long reply, copied text from Wikipedia's featured article:
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This is really weird, I can reply to you, but still can't reply to kbin.social users in my community. Both are on lemmy.world, and my community is even much smaller than this community, so size shouldn't be an issue either.
And I am replying from a completely different instance. Isn't the Fediverse great? (Even though I also noticed that comments from others on my own posts do not show up in my own instance)
I can't seem to find kbin-communities on lemmy.world when the kbin has a capital-letter in it. Lemmy is universally using lowercase letters.
I'm excited that kbin and lemmy are able to interact. Hopefully with some development effort, they'll be more compatible. But our communities can't interact perfectly quite yet.
Figured out the issue, thanks to another post (which I have lost the link to, and can't find), you have to select 'English' as the language for the reply, otherwise it won't post to any instance that doesn't have 'undetermined' in the languages or to kbin.social account.
The "fediverse" wasn't prepared for the sudden onslaught of users it is receiving from all instances these days... I'd say it will take a few weeks before everything stabilizes and all instances get an upgraded infrastructure.
Let's just be patient!
The communication would only be between the two servers involved - the fediverse as such is fine. But the sites of the "threadiverse" are indeed a bit overloaded. ;)
I think some amount of federation broke a few hours ago. I haven't been able to confirm because it seems inconsistent, but things are definitely slow to propagate to other instances and back to here. For example, I can see some of my comments have likes if I check on other instances, but when I look at my own profile, they still show 0.
Federation want working at all yesterday, there's probably still some hiccups in the system. Ernest is working really hard though so hopefully everything will be sorted out sooner rather than later!