Afaik it is a specific implementation issue in Lemmy that causes this. Instances in Australia had problems catching up with lemmy.world because of that.
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julian@activitypub.space 3 weeks agoI'm sorry, this is not how federation works, and if it were truly as limited as "one activity at a time", moving a community to an entirely different continent is a fantastically short sighted idea.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
It wasn’t just a problem. It was literally impossible for them to keep up.
Re-locating the server was the only option, as opposed to skipping events or shutting down until the problem was fixed.
Blaze@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
This has been solved 7 months ago: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/42049808
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Here is the github issue.