Hey just want to update you on this, we made some changes that appear to be working. We've gone from 1.47 weeks behind to 1.42. You can see the recent change here.
Oh, very nice! And yes, the blue was chosen because it matches with the default Lemmy upvote color.
Startrek.website has banned the user and blocked/purged the communities.
As ValueSubtracted said please report. Reporting alerts startrek.website admins and the admins of the user's home instance. If we notice another instance regularly not cleaning out their trash, we have the option to defederate from them.
Here is our FAQ. What kind of communities are you most interested in? I'd be happy to make some recommendations.
As ValueSubtracted said, as far as we can tell, the problem is on Lemmy.world's side as we are not seeing any major disruptions with content from other instances. But we are looking into options on our end.
EDIT: We've made some adjustments that appear to be closing the gap
EDIE 2: The issue has been resolved
StarTrek.website saw 4 approved registrations in the past day, and we typically get about 1/day too.
Straight jump, no issues that I've noticed thus far.
We suspect this may have to do with their older Lemmy version as we're noticing it on some other instances as well, but not .ml which is running the latest.
What was the community/post? It's possible we removed it on our side (Also we are up to 4 days behind now, progress!).
Personally I don't prefer the .world versions of most communities so I haven't noticed much difference.