essentially that is what mythology has been for humanity. Too bad now we just let advertising borrow the techniques without education the population how it works.

This post you made, the language you set on it is “中文”.

comments are hidden on some posts I’ve seen, like it says there are 8 but I see 2.

Lemmy has bug in counting too. Comments are often missing because of replication issues between servers. But the most common issue I’v seen with inflated comment numbers is edits being counted as new comments.

Federation also does a lot of live HTTP connects to other peers. It looks up users for messages. The whole design is very resource intensive, one single vote, comment, post at a time. There is also a lot of boilerplate JSON overhead in sending something as simple as a single vote.

There is a pattern of retries built into the code, but syncing has no ability to repair failures, and there have been hand-documented cases where even with retries, there is significant data loss: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101

I am starting to see some partial page loads, broken pages - bug with actual data content of posting/comments on them. I expect other federation servers are swarming to the site to try and replicate - and it’s causing a mess given how many communities lemmy.ml is center of.

Still down as of time of this comment, 45 minutes since I first observed it.