Andrew

It depends. It seems like Lemmy batches up its activity to send to remote instances - so, per instance, it sleeps for a bit, then sends what it has. If both a Create and an Update are in the same batch, Lemmy just sends the Update. If they don’t happen to be in the same batch though, it sends both activities.

(this is outsider observation, not insider knowledge)

I wouldn’t do this personally, but if I did, I think I’d at least pipe the results to head -n 1 to only act on the first result.

‘subscribe to anything’ is handy, too. I’m subscribed to this post, for instance, so get notifications of new top-level comments.

That’s kinda funny, in a way - unsophisticated prevention for an unsophisticated attack.

Everyone trying to use the Internet normally suffers due to this kind of stuff.

You’re right about the cause: Lemmy’s front-end isn’t giving its backend enough time to do everything it needs to do for an unfamiliar commentary.

It works better if you copy / paste the link into Search. MBin effectively redirects all these links to its Search anyway, so maybe that’s an option.

I’ve had that problem too (messing around with test instances) - for anyone else wondering why: it’s because the RSA keypair for me@mydomain has changed, and remote instances fail to validate message headers signed with the new private key, because they’re still using their copy of an old public key.

It seems to be quite a lot for the server it’s hosted on though (which is not the snappiest). There are, of course, still areas in the world where - for one reason or another - people still are effectively on dial-up speed-wise.

Buster should turn their attention to the size of the images uploaded to servers like this: 1.1M is arguably overkill for this one.

This isn’t really my area, but I’ll have a crack. From what I understand, Lemmy uses the ‘meta og:image’ tag to grab a thumbnail. Inspecting your site, I can see that that tag is in the html head. However, if you just ‘curl’ the URL, then it isn’t in the results. Using ‘curl’ for URLs from sites that are known to work in terms of generating thumbnails (theguardian and bbc), the tag is visible in the result.

This suggests that your site is using further scripting on page load to provide the meta tags, whereas perhaps Lemmy can only get them if they are provided immediately. There are other sites (like Reuters), who use additional scripting, that Lemmy is unable to get thumbnails for also (e.g. https://lemmy.world/post/16203031)

It probably is. I’d tried Mastodon but found myself not going back. Phanpy re-invigorated my interest in it.

Re: sorting posts not working - I don’t know. It looks like you’ve deleted the post you made about ‘sorting of posts not aligned’

Re: communities not updated - I found your GIF hard to follow, but there’s a straight-forward difference between the post list you’re seeing on lemm.ee and on programming.dev, in that the missing posts are all tagged ‘English’. (If you looked at lemm.ee when you’re logged out, you’d see the same list as on programming.dev).
I assume you’ve fixed it now, since this post is in English, but to recreate what lemmy-ui is doing:

#!/bin/bash

show_post=true
lang_id_undefined="0"
lang_id_english="37"

for page in {1..17}
do
  curl --silent "https://lemm.ee/api/v3/post/list?community_id=8024&page=$page&limit=50" |
  jq -rc '.posts[] | .post.language_id, .post.name' |
  while read line
  do
    if [ "$line" == "$lang_id_english" ]; then show_post=false; continue; fi
    if [ "$line" == "$lang_id_undefined" ]; then show_post=true; continue; fi
    if $show_post; then echo $line; fi
  done
  page=page+1
done

There was a great windows app called ‘dvdshrink’ that let you rip commercial DVDs onto blank DVDs (shrinking them if necessary). It got taken down with a Cease & Desist, but the MPAA or whoever didn’t worry about who took the domain. For a long time, the site was just filled with ads instead - now it’s a bit more sophisticated: no real link to download the software, but lots of genuine-seeming donation requests.

The fake site is at the first search result for that software (edit: it’s probably best not to link directly to it)

The video was recording a VM that had been tunnelled through to with ngrok, so the HTTP details were from that software’s ‘Inspect’ window.

(I don’t know how best to configure your server to ignore the errors, because Rust is too scary, ha ha).

Might just be 'cos LW is currently sending every activity out twice. Video from earlier today: https://imgur.com/a/lX0LPZk

You could probably tail your nginx log in another terminal to see if the journalctl errors match up with 400 errors for duplicates there…

Might not be this, of course (could just be that I saw this earlier, and it’s influencing my thinking)

Decades ago, my school’s drug info was similar: every drug had a single entry (‘euphoria’) in the Pros column and a massive list (ending with death) for the Cons column.

The error you saw in your logs is due to a recently fixed bug: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4658

I’m not sure that it ever quite worked - the videos currently on Lemmy are likely to ones brought in manually, rather than new ones that have come in via federation.

The community copies (on lemmy.ml, endlesstalk.org, etc) all show 0 subscribers. At a guess, it’s because the format of the Followers collection on PeerTube is slightly different - it doesn’t have the empty ‘items’ array that Lemmy expects, so it just rejects it. As such, any new posts will also get rejected by Lemmy (the same way it does if a community genuinely does have 0 subscribers). A couple of Updates have come through, so maybe Updates circumvent that check.

The lead dev is Rimu - which isn’t on LW’s admin list.

Looks interesting - I imagine there’s lot of uses for this. I currently use ngrok to tunnel from 443 to a local server, which is good way to test fediverse apps, but I wouldn’t be able to use bore for that (because it only assigns random public ports above 1024, and doesn’t deal with the SSL end of things)

Mastodon also has a different outbox format (one that’s paginated), so that’s the other reason their posts don’t show from Lemmy. Solving the problem of following users with fake communities has also been proposed (by me, and also here), but it’s generally a bad idea - a hack that will come back to bite you. If Lemmy were changed to integrate Mastodon more, it’d ideally be a big project - one that would fully embrace the idiosyncrasies of Mastodon (like muting replies and denying Follow requests) because ignoring them would lead to trouble later on.