i believe they typically run as a service on a computer, monitoring the subreddit via the reddit api, the when it finds new stuff, it posts it onto lemmy.

that post has the most comment’s i’ve ever seen so far. at least that i can remember. or maybe i just live a sheltered lemmy life, haha.

from what i can see all posts are there that should be there? it could be that it took a bit for the post to federate?

is this the post you’re referring to? https://lemmy.ca/post/435196

I’m not sure why that’s happening. I’ll try restarting the service to see if that helps at all.

yes, we’re on the most recent version. it could be just a cosmetic thing too. I will try and follow a lemmy community from mastodon and see what it says in the lemmy db.

haven’t gotten around to it yet. probably won’t have a chance this weekend, will report back then.

i’ve done some more investigation into this, and i’m not sure why it’s not working. i was able to successfully follow my lemmy account from my mstdn.ca account, however i do get the “Pending Request” thing when trying to do it from my main social.linux.pizza mastodon account.

also, trying to search for communities didn’t appear to work at all from mstdn.ca, but it does from social.linux.pizza, but i wasn’t able to follow it without getting the “Pending Request” thing. weird.

there isn’t any error in the lemmy logs or anything, so i’m not sure what else i can do at this point. i’ll ask in the lemmy instance admin matrix channel to see if anyone has any further ideas how i can troubleshoot this issue. the weird part is i’m not consistently seeing the request being logged in my web logs, so maybe the request is being blocked further up? i’ll investigate that as well.

i also compared getting the json returned from both a community & user on both lemmy.ca & lemmy.ml, and i couldn’t see any obvious differences.

thanks for your patience!

thanks for the info! i will try this when i have some free time, and hopefully be able to get to the bottom of this.

edit:
just tried it. similar to what i found above, i see the Follow and Accept activities being logged when sending a follow request from mtdn.ca, but not my main account social.linuz.pizza. it could be it’s getting blocked along the way, for whatever reason. will contact the admin for social.linuz.pizza to see if they can help get this figured out, or if they can provide any more info.

ok, after talking with the admin of social.linux.pizza, it was because ipv6 wasn’t working. once I got that fixed, everything started working again normally.

@oliver@lemmy.ca, @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca you may have to contact your mastodon admins and get them to check to make sure lemmy.ca is active or something.

ok, i don’t think this issue is fully resolved yet. it seems that ipv6 seems to stop working every once in a while, and just doing a reboot of it appears to fix it. i’m going to contact my vps support to see if they can help.