A lot of my front page is full of kbin magazines that are inundated with spam. As we are all acutely aware, moderation actions on kbin are not replicated across the fediverse, causing lingering spam needing to be cleaned up by other instance moderators and admins.

I would just eliminate interactivity until kbin pushes an update that fixes the federation moderation issue, because 80% of the kbin content I see these days is just spam.

I'm getting a little tired of seeing 90% of my feed filled with news from Israel and Gaza... on Voyager, you can filter your feed based on keywords, but it seems that the Lemmy web UI only allows for blocking of instances and users.

Am I missing something or can it be done?

I was trying to reply a post at Costco@lemmy.world : https://lemmy.ca/post/1127818 , origins from https://lemmy.world/post/1020538

When I clicked "Reply", the little circle on the button had been spinning and never finished.

I refreshed the page, and no surprise, my reply was not posted successfully.

Similar issues has been happening to me in the last few months, and now I finally wrote my issue report.

Is this issue due to our site or their site?

Edit: Closed this issue. See https://lemmy.ca/comment/4133550

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5719058

Follow up on a previous post: [DISCUSS] Recent momentary outages

I've been working on a simple opt-in solution, primarily for Lemmy end users like me (but also helpful for admins), to easily check the status/health of their favourite instance.

🌎 lemmy-meter.info

You can find the details of the implementation in lemmy-meter github repo.

❓ @admins: would you be interested in adding your instance to lemmy-meter?

You don't need to do anything except confirming - I'll handle the rest. It should only take a few minutes for your instance to show up in lemmy-meter.

Out of the box it will send only 4 HTTP GET requests per minute to your instance. However that is totally configurable if it sounds too much or too little.

PS: I wasn't sure how to reach out to the admins short of messaging them individually.

No rush, and the delay is on me because I didn't message or tag an admin with the post.

I'm requesting /c/CommunityPromo (to get running again) and /c/healthquestions (to close)

I think i've found a bug, but i'm not sure the protocol for where to submit it.

The bug:

This comment: https://old.lemmy.ca/comment/3118239

• clicking "load more comments" shows nothing.
• clicking "view the rest of the comments" shows comments on post, but without this reply

For the regular view: https://lemmy.ca/comment/3118239)

• clicking "show context" shows a sibling comment
• clicking "View all comments", shows all comments but either my comment or the sibling comment.
• clicking "1 more reply" returns nothing

I think the parent comment (and replies to my comment have been deleted. Maybe this is intentional behaviour

Actually this might be the bug: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3886

I wanted to create all the canadian telecom communities but then after I made 3 new ones the website wouldn't allow me register more. Is there a weekly limit I should account for?

I just want everyone to have a space on here to talk about communication services.

I noticed that kbin.social communities i'm subscribed have broken links in old.lemmy.ca -- not sure if its a config issue or an mlmym issue, but figured i should tell someone

example:

!gaming@kbin.social link on old.lemmy.ca points to https://old.lemmy.ca/m/gaming@kbin.social , https://old.lemmy.ca/c/gaming@kbin.social works fine

Hi,

Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this, not sure how else to get the attention of the admins. The password reset form for lemmy.ca doesn't work. When you click the "Reset Password" button, the subsequent XHR POST to https://lemmy.ca/api/v3/user/password_reset returns an HTTP 404.

I've been constantly running into issues of stale content and errors fetching post on lemmy.ca the past couple of days.

While scrolling on my client (Sync), I keep seeing errors about fetching new posts and have to click retry a few times to fetch more posts. At times I have to retry 6-7 times. Additionally, it seems like I'm seeing posts I've already seen a lot from the past more quickly than I'd expect in "Hot".

I tried changing to a different instance and at least the first issue was immediately resolved. Posts were fetched quicker, and I didn't get any more errors while fetching posts.

I haven't run into this on alex.lemmy.ca on desktop (yet), so it's possible that it's an API issue. It's also possibly a Sync bug.

I suspect there's been a recent performance/federation regression, could one of the admins confirm/deny my suspicions? Totally not a problem if it's not something that can be fixed right away, just wanted to bring it to y'all's attention.

Edit: although the screenshot mentions posts being filtered, I don't have enough filters to completely prevent fetching new content

How do I block an entire instance?

I'm getting really really sick of blocking dozens of communities from lemmynsfw every single day. It never ends ffs.

If I want porn, I'll go looking for porn. It shouldn't be every third post in my feed.

Honestly, how is anyone supposed to join Lemmy if they all just get flodded with mountains of porn??? I can't imagine anyone that's not already invested in being here wanting to join. (unless their looking for a pornhub alt I guess...)

Not everything NSFW is porn and I'm not looking to remove non-porn so permanently hiding everything tagged NSFW isn't a solution.

It looks pretty slick and seems like it's officially supported on lemmy.world.

While we're at it, any chance the Alexandrite UI could be supported too?

Thanks! You guys are killing it!

Right now, robots.txt on lemmy.ca is configured this way

User-Agent: *
  Disallow: /login
  Disallow: /login_reset
  Disallow: /settings
  Disallow: /create_community
  Disallow: /create_post
  Disallow: /create_private_message
  Disallow: /inbox
  Disallow: /setup
  Disallow: /admin
  Disallow: /password_change
  Disallow: /search/
  Disallow: /modlog

Would it be a good idea privacy-wise to deny GPTBot from scrapping content from the server?

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Thanks!

The "all new" feed is a bit of a mess regardless. Hundreds of porn links being posted on random@kbin.social. I can't tell if this is bots or some weird and intentionally random thing they are doing.

How is the system running lemmy.ca doing? I'm curious to know about the storage size this instance has and if there was any plan to purge data after X years of inactivity?

I see a lot of posts like this where the title is truncated. Clicking on the title in an app/browser just seems to take you to the link, so I have no idea what the full title actually says.

This appears to be a bug, unless I'm missing something?

I just noticed that /u/Synthead@lemmy.world posted in /c/lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca and for some reason it posted twice on this instance

• https://lemmy.ca/post/2238125
• https://lemmy.ca/post/2238275

When you take a look at his post history on Lemmy.World, he only posted once.

I'm not sure what situation could have caused a double-post in the backend/ActivityPub level? Anyway I just wanted to flag the odd behavior.

Thanks, and sorry for pinging you @Synthead@lemmy.world, not your fault at all.

Hey all, I am having trouble submitting requests this morning to Lemmy.ca. Creating posts (like this one) I attempted 3 times all of which failed to complete their requests after minutes of waiting.

Beefier servers needed? More caching? Sure, let's do that. That said, I think there should be some UI improvements on the client side that improve the experience when we do encounter flakey servers.

My suggestion is to time out on the high-request-count workloads on the client side so that you're not accidentally hammering the server with requests that won't complete. Client side js code should convert a request like the create post green button to a error / retry button with text explaning what happened (hey the request timed out after x seconds).

I don't imagine /create_post is a high throughput endpoint, but suffice it to say that my request continued to wait in the queue patiently for the server to never respond and it was also a frustrating client-side experience. Other endpoints are probably the culprit behind any excessive server use.

Client-side it should time out after 15-30 seconds, if not less, so that I'm not just waiting and re-typing everything into the create post form again (because there's no way to retry if it's still waiting for the server response!). Re-typing everything in is the worst!

Basically the title. I went to settings > delete > enter password ... And nothing changed. How do you delete a lemmy account?

I noticed that when I click my username menu-dropdown (the profile|settings|logout dropdown) on this Lemmy instance, because the menu is aligned to the left but the button is in the top-right-corner and I have a very short username, it widens the window because it extends outside of the normal right edge of the viewing area.

Here, let me show you what I mean:

note the overflowing dropdown box and horizontal scrollbar. That horizontal scrollbar only appears when the menu is visible.

I was going to log a bug in lemmy-ui, but then noticed that this doesn't happen on my other account on sh.itjust.works. Then I realized the difference: sh.itjust.works has a massive amount of wasteful padding on the sides, and over a maxwidth it just centres the whole site. Meanhwhile lemmy.ca uses the full width of my browser window.

First, I want to say: Thanks! Please use my screen to the fullest extent instead of wasting it on empty bars. If I wanted a narrow view, I'd shrink the browser window.

But I'm curious, is this customization something built into Lemmy or an unsupported tweak to the Lemmy code. That is, should I still log my bug on Github?

edit: confirmed can repro on narrower window on sh.itjust.works, logging bug to github.

This post doesnt appear to .world or .sjw users.

It suspect it doesn't appear to anyone at all, considering these get usally 100+ upvotes.

this community doesnt appear in my other accounts as well even if i try to manually force it (ie https://lemmy.world/c/sardonicast@lemmy.ca when logged in on a .world instance)

What could cause this issue?

I've run into some bad mods in my years online, hoping for support in dealing with bad moderators. Is there a code of conduct oversight team?

I am moderating this sub and it shows 4 comments. I only see 3?! https://lemmy.ca/post/1528939 Does anybody else see 4? I am a bit concerned if there are 4 and I can see only 3 (2 are mine). As a moderator that would be no good.

As title mentions I can’t get into my main account after enabling 2 factor authentication.

I am using Google Authenticator 6.0 the code appears there as expected. However when I provide it to either the browser login screen on yny desktop or Jebora on my phone then select the log in button nothing happens.

It doe not indicate it is the wrong code, nor does it give any error messages.

Chromes debug console a 400 (Bad request) with error: “incorrect_totp token”

I assume this means it doesn’t like the authentication code I am providing. Though I’m not quite sure what it’s expecting.

Hello,

I was wondering how this rule is enforced.