Federation is broken.
It's been broken for days - and that's not to say for months, because I charitably include the few hours it worked again lately for some reason.
I don't know if other instances are that thoroughly broken, because the rest of Lemmy seems to be chugging along just fine. It's just us poor SDF user suckers.
And no-one gives a rat's ass.
Truly pathetic...
Any idea if it'll "catch up" and sync all the messages over the past few days, or just start properly federating new stuff going forward?
In the past, there's been no catch up. Repost anything you want to be seen.
Things caught up the last time. I even got replies to some of my comments
Yep. That's a new feature of 0.19.x. It reworked how the federation works, and now it also checks if stuff federated successfully, if not, retry. It was done to make federation more reliable. But of course, new features, new bugs.
At least that's as far as I know. Don't trust me.
I noticed some replies to my comments coming in like a day late. Not sure if that was on SDF's end or the other servers'.