It’s not a problem with LW but aussie.zone taking too long to respond to the data being pushed. There are instances on the US that fixed this by taking initiative and setting up a system that would active pull the data from LW to keep in sync.

Geographical distance between Europe and Australia is also at play.

Because you are the most invested in getting people out of LW, and because you don’t trust other people that set up topic-based instances?

I trust the admins of the topic-based instances hosting the following communities, so I'm not sure what you mean?

Why wouldn’t this be possible in a separate instance?

Ah, sorry, I wasn't complete above: I meant a diverse set of mods and admins

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 5 months ago (24 children)

Geographical distance between Europe and Australia

Only because aussie.zone is relying exclusive on waiting the data to be pushed. If they pulled the data in bulk, latency would not be an issue and the problem would be immediately solved.

topic-based instances hosting the following communities

Aside from mander.xyz, the other instances are not topic-specific. They have communities which are focused of a more general scope, and its users are not focused on conversations around an exclusive topic.

Anyhow, the point is: as of yet, there is no one running an instance focused on Fediverse news and discussion. Wouldn't it be nice if you, I don't know, volunteered to do so?

Ah, sorry, I wasn’t complete above: I meant a diverse set of mods and admins

I am sure you can find people to help you co-admin the instance as well, if you set one up.

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago (9 children)

That isn't how lemmy and the activitypub protocol work. Source instance pushes metadata about new content, remote instance then needs to pull it. If we've not received the push yet, we can't pull the additional info.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There is absolutely nothing in the AP spec that prevents people from pulling data from the outboxes instead of waiting to be pushed.

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