Yeah, I'm seeing this as well. If I had to guess, I think it's because of new posts being cached on your home server. Like, someone goes out and subs to a new instance formerly unseen by your instance, and all the recent posts are suddenly cached and somehow pop up in your feed? I agree it shouldn't be happening, and the age of the posts that are flooding my feed don't seem to correspond with the view I use. I also notice that I get a lot of posts from the same community all at once.
atkion
joined 1 year ago
Yeah, I have several pending subscriptions on lemmy.ml as well. It definitely seems to correlate with how overloaded the instance is.
I believe it just means that the instance you tried to subscribe to hasn't responded to the federation request yet. Just wait a while and it'll resolve itself, assuming they haven't blocked you or something (and assuming that instance isn't down).
I'm suddenly really hungry at work... well, that's what I get for subscribing here. Cheers!
I had this problem too, when my account was on lemmy.ml. I recreated my account on my now-home instance, and everything has been so fast that I'm realizing how slow even old reddit has become. Lemmy caches your feed's posts on your home instance, so it's faster even for posts made on overloaded servers (though new comments coming in might be intermittent in that specific case).
And thus the cycle begins anew.
Thank you for this instance, truly. I love the idea behind lemmy, but have some doubts regarding the practices and stances of the major instances, so this seems perfect for me. I hope lemmy takes off and can scale as gracefully as possible in the years to come.
This is excellent, thank you.