Answering to myself in case somebody searches for this issue later: it is indeed buggy. It fixed itself after a couple of days and usually works now. However, some days it doesn’t want to work. Sometimes a force quit from the app resolves this, other times I have to wait for it to come back to the intended behavior by itself.

Voyager 2.14.0 on iOS 17.6

I choose sdf because it has typically been neutral on those regards. Let users choose whether they want to block whole instances or not. Federation is literally the word that gives meaning to fediverse, I don’t agree with the arguments who want to make the fediverse an “alternative” internet isolated from the rest.

You are right with the issues you mention, but keep in mind that sdf is not a for-profit service and is therefore maintained as such. It is a huge operation keep afloat by a few people. I have had an account there for more than a decade and there are always issues with the different services, so if you want to follow a server that has nearly no downtime you will need to find some other place. Sorry about that.

Memmy isn’t working for me either. I’ve logged out and in again, but requests are failing.

Let’s hope that the clients get updated soon