Post doesn't federate to lemmy.world or beehaw (self.main)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ToastedPlanet to c/main

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update, got it to work by sending a different link and then editing the post: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/18184598

This post:

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/18177512

with this url:

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-11-01/what-is-the-electoral-college-and-how-does-the-vote-work

Doesn't seem to federate. I've posted, waited, deleted and reposted multiple times. I've checked lemmy.world and beehaw and it never showed up. The original got one upvote so someone on Blahaj could see it. I'm curious if anyone has run into this problem before and how it was fixed.

Other comments and posts I've been doing have been federating, but specifically not this one. They usually take less than a minute maybe a couple more to federate. Since it wouldn't show on two different instances, after waiting, I would assume it has something to do with our instance, but it could just be a me problem.

I would appreciate it if someone else could try. Thank you.

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[-] ToastedPlanet 4 points 2 weeks ago

I finally got it to federate. I had to post an article for CNN and then edit to post it to what I wanted. This is the link I used and then switched out:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/health/daylight-saving-time-explainer-wellness/index.html

I also tried these, but they had the same problem and wouldn't federate: https://www.usnews.com/news/elections https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/

If anyone has an explanation for this I would be very interested to hear it. Are there exclude/include lists for certain websites on certain communities?

I guess it wasn't a me problem or a blahaj problem, but it's weird that two different politics communities on different instances had the same problem.

[-] Nothing4You@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

it may be related to the older lemmy version.

the latest lemmy version has changed how metadata is fetched for posts coming from federation and it will no longer be processed while receiving the federated activity, instead it will be processed in the background. sometimes, metadata for urls cannot be fetched within the time limit and then the post will not federate properly if it's not happening in the background.

[-] ToastedPlanet 1 points 2 weeks ago

Is there a different put route for updating where the meta data is processed differently or given a longer timer? Because the federation seems to work fine in that case.

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