/c/news@lemmy.world is the second biggest community on Lemmy.World and yet on /0, there is nothing newer than two days.
/c/technology@lemmy.world has two posts from today but based on the vote count, I think it’s only showing votes from this instance
It’s more to do with the lemmy itself as a platform handles than bandwith. Basically, there is only one channel between any two instances, and it’s serial, and each step requires multiple handshakes to complete. Add in geographic distance making those handshakes take a significant part of a second to complete, and you end up with a single channel that gets flooded.
Blahaj.zone is 1.3 million activities behind on lemmy.world for example, but we’re not behind on any other instance, because those channels don’t hit capacity. Now, if we could use multiple channels at once to talk to lemmy.world, we wouldn’t have a problem, but lemmy isn’t built for that at the moment
Couldnt they batch them up? Im not a technical person but this seems solvable.