To be honest, I kind of like this. I get really annoyed by Americans ignoring all the “Australia” and “Aussie” everywhere and then explaining something exclusive to America to us like we’re idiots. There’s not as much of that over here as there was on Reddit, but I still see it happen sometimes. It’s also been my experience that a decent portion of the people on LW are “minimum effort” people, they put the minimum amount of effort possible into choosing their Lemmy instance, and they also put the minimum amount of effort possible into everything else they do. I haven’t had many issues with people on other instances amerisplaining things at me, it’s mostly just people on LW.
It’s kind of nice to put them all into a mandatory week long timeout before we have to deal with them. In the meantime, they can still see and read comments from other LW users, so they can have their little arguments about how great America is in the peace and comfort of their naughty corner. Then a week later, the conversation is usually dead and whatever garbage they wanted to spruke about America is completely irrelevant (even though it didn’t have much relevancy to begin with…)
I’d almost be in favour of artificially kneecapping it so we can keep the American naughty corner forever, but this delay is affecting my meme supply and my all page is feeling quite bare
Nath@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Yeah, we’re aware of that issue. It’s a limitation with the Lemmy software itself. It only synchronises one thing (comment/vote/post etc) at a time. Confirms it federated and then the next thing. Due to the physical distance between us in Australia and lemmy.world in Finland, each thing takes ~.25 seconds to federate. As there are more things to federate than there is minutes in the day, there is a backlog.
Out friends over the Tasman got around the problem by spinning up a proxy server in Finland just to grab batches of lemmy.world content and bulk transfer it to NZ. We’ve been invited to share the code that enables that process, but it requires us setting up our own extra host in Finland. We haven’t allotted the time and funds to do that - mostly as it’s a problem that is expected to correct itself in an upcoming version of the Lemmy backend software.