Long load times + blank comments in federated instances' posts

I wanted to participate in multiple posts on other instances but when I pulled them up, only the posts themselves and none of their comments would federate/show here in my account. Is this a normal experience of this server? This didn't seem to be a problem in the past, from what I can remember...

3 points · 3 comments · view on lemmy.world

3 Comments

Dave@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 67d

Midwest.social doesn't seem to have any bot protection (Cloudflare captcha or Aunbis etc), so you are probably getting slammed with bots scraping for LLM training 😟

endofline@midwest.social · 1 pts · 11d (1 reply)

I just wanted to check to see if you were still running in to this problem? I currently am, specifically with posts in Texas@lemmy.world

joshchandra@midwest.social · 1 pts · 1d

It took me almost half a minute to pull even just this up on the same server! And then maybe 2-3x that duration just to read responses to my own comments...