things have been awfully quiet which makes me think something with federation has stopped working with Lemmy again
Things haven't been in sync for a day or two at least. Looking at a post from both kbin and lemmy (specifically startrek.website), there are times when not all of the posts are there, or there are comments missing, or the votes are just stuck. And this morning all/hot was almost completely static for hours.
Same here. When I started trying to post a few weeks ago it was intermittent. Sometimes it went through, other times I needed to "massage" the post by interacting with it (upvoting, commenting, etc.), sometimes it appeared on the local version of the magazine, sometimes just on my profile. But the past week or so it's been really bad. I gave up trying to fight with it and just made an account on a Lemmy instance to post from.