Known issue being worked on: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3588
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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For posts, I have been working on it this week and found that it has been broken since June 23 commit. Posts don't even get removed on the home server with 0.18.2, a fix is already waiting for acceptance: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3613
As for comments, with 0.18.2 - it depends where the delete is done. If you are on a remote instance from the community, the comment will be deleted on 2 servers, but no more. The local instance you use will delete, as will the community home, but it seems to me there never was any code to distribute deletes to subscribed servers: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3625
It also impacts moderators removing posts and comments. As these internally are similar to deletes. !asklemmy@lemmy.ml is one of the communities that has a lot of moderator removals due to people confusing the purpose of it as a technical support forum, and you can see servers not getting the mod removals frequently.
Not issue with Memmy, but lemmy itself. This is how it works. It needs time to propagate into other instances. And sometimes even the propagation can fail.
EDIT: this is not about Memmy. Misread the community. The second sentence still stands.
I didn't mention Memmy.
Right, just woke up and read the community wrongly. My bad. Just discard the first sentence then.
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It needs time to propagate into other instances.
Since 0.18.2 has been deployed by the bigger servers, the speed of propagation is really not much of an issue. The problem is a bug was introduced for posts on June 23, and for comments it seems that perhaps it has never worked. See my other comment for details.
I see, thank you for the correction. I always thought that it needs time to propagate. And if it fails, I read somewhere that there is no handling in place, so it falls into void.
And if it fails, I read somewhere that there is no handling in place, so it falls into void.
That is true in the current design, but in studying the actual outcomes, delivery-failures are not happening nearly as much as the problems with deletes and moderation.
I've been comparing servers for posts and comments for weeks, with 0.18.2 versions in the field - the majority of current inconsistencies are logic problems in the code that never even attempts to send (like deletes only going to 2 of 50+ servers).
Great observation. Did you look in the code?
Yes, and I've been adding custom logging to the Rust lemmy_server app and testing the problem transactions.
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