Potential workaround for federation issues?

Why thankyou & Happy New Year to you too. As @example@reddthat.com has said, we've been doing this for what seems like a couple weeks but is probably only a week in reality. 😅

Unfortunately it's very inconsistent and we've noticed sometimes 3 hours before comments have synced between instances. My current theory is this is probably due to some instance admins having enabled the "fix" while others haven't.

I despise the turn it off n on again nature as it never solves the underlying issues and only causes temporary solutions. There is a possibile underlying solution https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4330 but I have yet to find the time to start building our own containers.

If we start this route I would like to have the build systems incorporated with our git repository so that we can have repeatable builds and a way so I can take a week off and the other admins could still make a deployment if necessary.
This has a side effect to ensure I am compliant with any GPL requests, (or whatever the license is for Lemmy) as currently I can point people directly to the Lemmy git rather than my own.

This info was going to be part of the January announcement I've been putting off writing as well, due to the holidays. So we'll say it's a mini announcement and I'll pin this thread.

Cheers,
Tiff

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thanks, we actually already have something similar in place since a couple days ago
Why thankyou & Happy New Year to you too. As @example@reddthat.com has said, we've been doing this for what seems like a couple weeks but is probably only a week in reality. 😅
Unfortunately it's very inconsistent and we've noticed sometimes 3 hours before comments have synced between instances. My current theory is this is probably due to some instance admins having enabled the "fix" while others haven't.
I despise the turn it off n on again nature as it never solves the underlying issues and only causes temporary solutions. There is a possibile underlying solution https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4330 but I have yet to find the time to start building our own containers.
If we start this route I would like to have the build systems incorporated with our git repository so that we can have repeatable builds and a way so I can take a week off and the other admins could still make a deployment if necessary.
This has a side effect to ensure I am compliant with any GPL requests, (or whatever the license is for Lemmy) as currently I can point people directly to the Lemmy git rather than my own.
This info was going to be part of the January announcement I've been putting off writing as well, due to the holidays. So we'll say it's a mini announcement and I'll pin this thread.
Cheers,
Tiff