Following this comment: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4039#issuecomment-1773482259 I updated the timestamps in the instance table of midwest.social’s database. We’ll see if that fixes anything. Fingers crossed. For example, the updated timestamp column for lemmy.world was sometime on 10-30-23.
Odd. I just checked the timestamp of feddit.de for when it was last considered “alive” and it says it updated at 1:02 AM Frankfurt time. Let me try a few tests.