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Listen lads, lasses and lassless, I got a long day ahead of me, having to upgrade pict-rs, postgres and lemmy, so there might be some intermittent downtimes. You know how it is around here...not professionally at all.

Just a heads up.

Does anyone have an idea why this is happening?

I used to have an account on feddit, which is a german lemmy instance. For three months now I am only getting "Server error" when trying to visit it. Can anybody reach it? Is there any site where I can check the state of instances? Or was I banned?

Thanks for any help :)

I can access c/world on lemmy.world without problem:

lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/world@lemmy.world

But I cannot access c/whatstheword:

lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/whatstheword@lemmy.world

It seems unlikely that this specific and innocent community is blocked on either instance.

What's going on here?

~500 comments about our instance and admins in the past week. Talk about needing to touch some grass...

Hello, and sorry beforehand if this is not the correct place. I found a matrix support channel that doesn't work and I looked almost everywhere. Is there a way I could get in contact with somebody that can change the email?

Thanks in advance.

This time the issue was on the lemmy.world side where their federation worker responsible for lemmy.dbzer0.com, lemmy.blahaj.zone and lemmings.world among others b0rked and was sending 1 federation per minute at best. Unfortunately it seems just that single federation worker borked, which affected us again, because we're cursed apparently. Fortunately this meant that from our previous problems I had enough experience to know where to look. Unfortunately many people were thinking that existing issue along with some mbin spam was the problem, but it was a red herring in this case.

Anyway @ruud@lemmy.world restarted their federation workers and now we're catching up again. Will take like a day for that to happen.

@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone @rikudou@lemmings.world you should see your queues catching up quickly now.

/c/news@lemmy.world is the second biggest community on Lemmy.World and yet on /0, there is nothing newer than two days.

/c/technology@lemmy.world has two posts from today but based on the vote count, I think it's only showing votes from this instance

I've been having a bit of trouble loading the lemmy site today. It times out and takes ages to load quite often. I tested with other websites (Wikipedia, a school website, google) and while my mobile data is... not fast, it is not as slow as db0 is running.

I started thinking about it and I feel like loading performance has been slower than usual for a few days even...

Can anyone else confirm degraded performance today or am I trippin'?

Edit: using latest Firefox running uBlock origin on Android 14 if that matters. S21 Ultra.

Fairly tired of the lemmy.world crowd and their.. interesting moderation style.

Lemmy hasn't implemented instance blocks yet, so here is my question:

Any scripted way to block-all for the LW bot-fest?

Is there any consideration of a de-federation with LW?

Or is the entire point of a more anarchy-leaning instance to have 0 moderation db0?

Fine with either outcome/method; just sick of going through every single community any time they spin up a new neolib/cia shithole.

Picture above: "Text with 'Top Hour' as the search function" followed by a comment from 2 months ago

I'm willing to give this my best college try to code around.

Categorizing a particular user's posts manually is far more work than its worth, but I also have a script for user-lookups that I might suggest adding as well.

This site logs me out every few [hours/days] after leaving the site. It's as if the cookies get deleted, but they're not.

Is this intentional? Do other people also experience this?

[Bug] Gifs don't upload on the instance

I tried to upload a gif but I get this error message when doing so:

{"data":{"msg":"Failed external validation","files":null},"state":"success"}

I can upload any other type of image but gifs always fail for some reason.
Does anyone have any clue what could be going wrong? There's obviously something wrong with pictrs but I'm not sure what.

@div0

Mentioning admins for visibility
@Db0
@RandomLegend @Flatworm7591

#error #lemmy #support #db0 #dbzer0

This update is more applicable to new users, however existing users might also want to check out the updated signup page. Note that existing users will have to sign out or use incognito mode to view the page. A copy of the updated text is included below for easy reference.

Our application process is mostly the same as before, and has so far proven very successful in screening out bots and other problematic users.

The main change is the addition of our Golden Rules to the signup page. These rules were already in place for our instance (in the sidebar), however we wanted to ensure that they are foregrounded for new users, since the sidebar is not visible on the signup page. That's the main rationale for the update.

We have also added a line asking people to ensure they verify their email, because it's fairly common for people to skip that, and then we don't receive their application.

If anyone wants to suggest any further edits or improvements, please comment below and we will take your feedback into consideration.

Thank you for your interest in joining our community. Note that this is primarily an anarchist server, but you don't have to identify as an anarchist to join. Please take the time to read the Golden rules before applying, to make sure our Lemmy instance is a good fit for you.

Golden rules

1. Don’t be shitty to each other. For clarity, calls to violence and/or telling people to kill themselves is strictly prohibited.
2. Follow the Anarchist Code of Conduct. This code forms the basis of all our moderation decisions.
3. No posts promoting cryptocurrency, blockchain or NFTs.
4. No advertising or self-promotion without prior approval from the community moderator or site admin.
5. No extreme-right-wing bullshit. This includes conspiracy theories, SovCit, Copoganda, AnCaps etc. We’ll know it when we see it, don’t test us!
6. No anti-science or pseudoscientific bullshit.
7. No Tankie bullshit.
8. No TERFs.
9. This instance is proud to be an ally of LGBTQ+ people and communities. If you're not cool with that, then please don't apply.
10. When going to other communities, respect their rules AND our rules when they are more restrictive. Do not give cause for others to de-federate our instance please.

Application instructions

For your application to be approved, you'll need to include all three items listed below:

• Please include the following words "I agree to follow the 10 golden rules" in your application.
• Tell us the name of your favorite anarchist, pirate, or open source advocate.
• Mention one public event or news story that happened in the last month.

Incomplete applications will be rejected. Profanity is encouraged. Thanks for understanding.

Note: Please be sure to verify your email when applying, or the application will not be processed.

Appeals process

If your application is rejected, you can appeal the decision in matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#div0-appeals:matrix.org and we will be happy to reconsider your application.

Follow-up from https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15792108

I've spent a ton of hours trying to troubleshoot why lemmy.dbzer0.com is falling behind lemmy.world in federation. We have a good idea where it's going wrong, but we have no idea why.

The problem is that once I receive an apub sync from l.w and send the request to the lemmy backend, it takes about 1 second to process an apub sync, which is way too long (is should typically be < 100ms).

We had a look at the DB and it was somewhat slow due to syncing commits to disk. OK we disabled that, and now it's much faster (and less safe but whatever) but the sync times have not improved at all.

I've also made a lot of tests to ensure the problem is not coming from my loadbalancers and I am certain I've removed them from the equation. The issue is somewhere within the lemmy docker stuff and/or the postgresql DB.

Unfortunately I'm relying solely on other admins help on matrix, and at this point I'm being asked to recompile lemmy from scratch or deploy my own docker container with more debug instructions. Neither of these is within my skillset, so I'm struggling to make progress on this.

In the meantime we're falling further and further behind in the lemmy.world federation queue, (along with a lot of other instances). To clarify, the problem is not lemmy.world. It takes my instance the same time to receive apub syncs from every other server. It's just that the other servers don't have as much traffic so 1/s is enough to keep up. But lemmy.world has so much constant changes, 1/s is not nearly fast enough.

I'm continuing to dig on this as much as I can. But I won't lie that I could use some help.

I'll keep you all updated in this thread.

Very active post on LW: https://lemmy.world/post/12747897

Empty thread on db0: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15749604

I had initially assumed it was a problem on LWs end... but other instances seem to be federating just fine:

https://lemm.ee/post/25817431

https://lemmy.ml/post/12793895

Just wanted to bring it to your attention. Not sure if this is on LWs end of db0's end.

It seems I am unable to view this post https://lemmy.world/post/10613192

on this instance lemmy.dbzer0.com, even though lemmy.world is not deferated.

How is this possible? I tried injecting the /post/10613192 into the URL: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/10613192 but this page does not exist

Follow up from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/14287556

Apparently contabo has a hidden limit on total amount of objects in the object storage, which they've now quintupled for me. Given our growth, this should hopefully last us a couple of years before I need to poke them again.

I just checked all the available frontends and it seems like none of them have some of the new sorting options available. Am I doing something wrong?

I was informed about something going wrong here and investigation showed that it's worse than I thought. My Contabo Object Storage started claiming it's full, even though it's only half-full. I opened a ticket to tell them to fix their shit, but knowing their speed, it might be a few more days :-/

That's what I get for choosing the budget services...

For the past couple of days I can't seem to be able to post on communities other than those on dbzer0. Just says error 500.

• My app isn't an issue, posted through alt on the same app. Also tried from a seperate app - same result.

• Not banned or anything from the community, checked modlogs. Also mod one of the communities I can't post on. !aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz

• Tried posting on communities from several instances, same result.

What's going on here? Anyone have an idea?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13211160

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