I spent several hours tracing in production (updating the code a dozen times with extra logging) to identify the actual path the lemmy_server code uses for outbound federation of votes to subscribed servers.

Major popular servers, Beehaw, Leemy.world, Lemmy.ml - have a large number of instance servers subscribing to their communities to get copies of every post/comment. Comment votes/likes are the most common activity, and it is proposed that during the PERFORMANCE CRISIS that outbound vote/like sharing be turned off by these overwhelmed servers.

pull request for draft:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/main...RocketDerp:lemmy_comment_votes_nofed1:no_federation_of_votes_outbound0

EDIT: LEMMY_SKIP_FEDERATE_VOTES environment variable

  • RoundSparrow@lemmy.mlOPM
    1·
    1 year ago

    ool. I found the syntax for multiple hits, so I was looking for:

    match activity {
    AnnouncableActivities::UndoVote(_)  |
    AnnouncableActivities::Vote(_) => {
        warn!("zebratrace310 SKIP federating Vote/UndoVote");
    },
    _ => {
        warn!("zebratrace311 send");
        AnnounceActivity::send(activity.clone().try_into()?, community, context).await?;
    },
}

    Thank you.