Recently, I’ve noticed federated threads/comments/votes were lagging behind, and it turns out kbin.earth was being spammed (hundreds in a minute, leading to a couple thousand queued messages after only half an hour) by a Lemmy server with the same exact activity pub message. After blocking the server (feddit.de), federation should now work correctly. If the admins of the server ever fix the issue, I’ll be glad to unblock it.
Edit: turns out, this was probably actually a kbin issue, but at least it’s fixed the issues temporarily.
yes, really you.
i believe this is a bug in kbin somewhere causing (almost) endless loops for the same activities (data sent between instances to communicate your actions like votes) over and over again.
all the accounts i’ve looked at so far are (or at least look like) real users. we do not believe that this is a malicious action triggered intentionally by someone who has access to the account. you just happen to be one of the unlucky so far 37 users affected by this.
Ok thank you,
Is there anything I can do, or this is just a back end issue?
I don’t want to tell people not to interact with the platform, but it seems that it’s mostly votes triggering this issue currently.
Not voting kinda defeats the point of the platform in the first place.
I don’t think there’s really anything for you to do different, at least not until it’s known what exactly triggers this issue.
We’re currently evaluating a solution on our end to ignore all votes coming in from kbin.social, which we may consider extending to other kbin instances if necessary. That should mitigate most of this hopefully.