On the instance I’m using, my comments and posts have disappeared. It is ok?

I had a few helpful comments here that I saved, but it’s all gone.

Having got used to the stability in Mastodon I was surprised by such things in Lemmy as:

Unable to log into your account through the app after an update on the server.

Unable to log into your account through the app if your instance version is out of date.

Just because you’ve created a post or written a comment doesn’t mean other Lemmy users will see it.

I have to constantly check to see if my messages are visible on other instances.

You also need to have many sub-accounts on different instances in case some of the primary instances are unavailable.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    901·
    10 months ago

    I have wildly more patience for Lemmy’s glitches than I do for Reddit’s. Lemmy’s devs are working on a shoestring budget with just a few people trying to prop up a whole social network. The project is still pretty early in its life cycle.

    • Lmaydev@programming.dev
      291·
      10 months ago

      A lot of the mentioned issues are caused by instances having different versions.

      This could be fixed with API versioning. As in you support the last couple versions of the API rather than only the new one.

      • pixelscript@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        I believe this most recent update to v0.19 was somewhat unique in the regard of login incompatibility across versions, as major breaking changes to authentication itself were the focus of it.

      • ChaosAD@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        Yeah but take into account nobody was expecting reddit enshitificate so fast.

        Before we get the massive exodus things were smooth.

        • Lmaydev@programming.dev
          1·
          10 months ago

          Yeah I’m sure it revealed a lot of scaling issues and other bugs.

          It’s often considered bad practise to prematurely optimize software. But when working at scale little things can start to really bite.

    • magnetosphere@kbin.social
      91·
      10 months ago

      Exactly. Those people are paid salaries. They have teams working on things. When something is allowed to go wrong, someone either didn’t do the job they’re paid for, or they’re incompetent/apathetic. They’re using proven software that’s been around a while.

      When there’s a problem with a Lemmy instance, then maybe the one person responsible was at the job that actually pays their rent. They’re working with beta software that’s full of “surprises”.

    • Sticker@lemy.nlOP
      5·
      10 months ago

      Since your reply to the post for xarexyouxmadx is not visible from this instance, I will reply here.

      We at SDF had some outgoing federation issues recently, and we weren’t the only ones.

      Has this problem gone unresolved for a long time?
      Right now, a similar issue with the instance lemmy.today

      Also, my original instance (vlemmy) literally deleted itself in July.

      The first instance I was registered on doesn’t exist anymore either. It was celeb.pizza