Fedia Discussions

ActivityPub could be a little more portable through the use of OIDC. You could even separate identities from instances!

#fedia

Hello everyone. I will be taking fedia.io offline in a few hours (timing dependent on work meetings) to apply the latest mbin updates, which should, among other things, fix 2FA.

In the coming days, I will be making a few other changes to improve the performance of the instance, moving the instance behind a CDN.

Is anyone else having the QR image not generate when trying to setup two-factor authentication?

I cannot view the “we’re back” thread -- just get the error 500.

I see that I have a notification but cannot access it because my notifications give an error 500.

I spent an incredible amount of time over the past few days unf*cking the fedia.io database. It should be clean now and that should both dramatically improve performance and fix all or most all of the remaining error 500’s

I saw other reports in the recent call for problems of errors around searching, but this seems, to me at least, to be reproducible.

edit: to be clear, this is using fedia.io - I am not sure if this bug affects mbin/kbin more generally, I've only tested on fedia.io.

First, I want to thank those who pointed me to mbin. I spent about 14 hours today with help from the mbin team on and off and found/fixed many problems.

Second, this post may not be very intelligible. I’ve been awake for a very long time.

In transparency, at one point today we were pretty convinced that fedia.io had been hacked. But it turns out that sometimes companies go out of business, cancel their servers but leave their domain pointing to that server. And sometimes a person like me is the next person to rent a server with that former customers IP address and then hilarity ensues when your nascent software recognizes that domain is pointing to itself and starts remaining links using the former company’s domain.

During the time I thought it was hacked, I rebuilt it. In doing so, it appears that I’ve fixed many issues that accumulated over the months as kbin went through successive updates.

We did also find a nagging bug in the markdown parser Fedia was running, which caused many (perhaps most) of the remaining error 500’s. I am not clear whether that is fixed now, but if not, we know where to look.

Based on my experience today with the mbin team and the progress of fixing issues, I am fully retracting my intention to shut down Fedia.io and will start working with the mbin team on some performance issues.

Thanks for the patience, everyone.

The timeline from:

https://links.hackliberty.org/c/privacy@fedia.io

is completely different than the original timeline:

https://fedia.io/m/privacy

Posts from both venues are not making to the other.

I created [!privacy@fedia.io](/c/privacy@fedia.io) yet when I query for “privacy” on fedia.io, this group is not listed at all, not even on the bottom.

It should of course be listed. It should also be prioritized on the top of the list.

On a couple of different devices -- each using an independent internet connection -- I've been having unusually poor performance on Fedia for at least the past several hours, with very long load times (sometimes timing out individual assets), and poor responsiveness on actions like submit/reply etc, ironically including when trying to submit this thread.

Have I gotten really unlucky, or are other users seeing similar? (related to this problem, maybe?)

Edit: And now it seems back to normal (I didn't explicitly change anything), so idk what's up with that.

I tried to comment in this thread:

https://fedia.io/m/news@lemmy.world/t/339242/Ex-Americans-are-suing-America-to-get-back-some-of-the

Wrote out a msg, clicked “Add comment”. The button faded and changed to “Sending…“ then simply reverted back to “Add comment”. My comment does not get posted.

#Lemmy is plagued with this behavior where you take the time to fill out a form & submit, and it simply does nothing and gives no reason for the refusal. It’s extremely frustrating because my effort is thrown away and I don’t even get to know why. If a form won’t be accepted, then don’t present it to me in the first place.

Now #Kbin is doing it.

Lemmy devs say the lemmy server is solid and that it’s the Lemmy web client that’s buggy and flimsy -- which seems likely (the client is javascript after all). But in this case at hand I’m using a kbin client to post to a lemmy community.

Is the kbin client talking directly to the lemmy server, or does the fedia kbin server proxy the msg? I suspect the former because I’m on tor and #LemmyWorld is #Cloudflare configured in a tor-hostile way.

So #fuckCloudflare. If this is a CF problem then the Kbin client should be smartened to make CF threads read-only so people don’t waste their time trying to generate content.

OTOH I have some doubt about the Cloudflare-blockade theory because I am able to vote in that thread. Why would my votes stick but my comments be refused?

This link gives a 404 error:

https://fedia.io/m/orgmode@kbin.social

yet it’s clear that the mag exists:

https://kbin.social/m/orgmode

There are no threads posted there yet. Is that somehow causing a 404 to be reported?

I wanted to post to m/Belgium on kbin.social, so I went to:

https://fedia.io/m/Belgium@kbin.social

Is that the correct URL? It gives the 500 server error.

It’s not subscriptions apparently because nothing I see there is from a subscribed channel.

I would like more control over it. E.g. I would like to filter out threads from these instances:

• lemmy·world ← Cloudflare
• lemmy·ml ← shenanigans, political baggage by admins, etc
• sh·itjust·works ← Cloudflare
• lemm·ee ← Cloudflare
• lemmy·one ← Cloudflare
• lemmy·ca ← Cloudflare
• lemmy·finance ← Cloudflare

I realize I need not make a direct connection to them but I prefer to give a social bias that favors non-Cloudflare nodes. So in principle I would like a switch that says “nix Cloudflare threads from the local timeline”. Additionally I would also like to have the option to name nodes to exclude as well. But if a thread lives on a decent host, I don’t mind seeing comments and replies from bad nodes.

I guess kbin has bigger matters to solve ATM but just wanted to get this on record.

This is what it looks like when avatar is disabled in the #kbin profile and images are disabled in the browser. The avatar is converted into the text address of the author -- which is a great idea. But then the HTML apparently uses a table or something and makes the left column as small as possible for the object. This means 1 char when in image is not showing. For people with really long addresses 1 post takes up a whole screen even if it’s just one line.

While I’m skeptical there are many people still using fedia.io, I have been continue to try to fix the error 500 problems. These errors are caused by kbin thinking it stored database records with pointers to images (like the avatar image, images attached to posts and the like) but not actually finishing. So when certain records are pulled up (magazines or posts or users) where there is a missing image record, an error 500 exists. I’ve continued to find more instances of this and frankly I don’t know what is causing the problem. As a mitigation, I have been running cron jobs every 15 minutes to correct these broken links. This morning, I believe I chased down the cause of the last remaining disconnect and have that being fixed as well.

I suspect there are still other problems, like replies appearing twice. I will try to figure out what is going on with those as I can.

Every time I try to delete my account it returns a 500 error.

deleting account is not working since several weeks. always gives 500 error. so does the cuntact us section. how can someone delete his account from here?

#fedia

#Fediverse

I am having “a time of it” on @fedia

Most tabs return 500 (Safari client). I can’t make heads or tails of how to locate anything. 😥

Nothing posted from Lemmy to a Fedia magazine is federating out to that magazine/community on other Lemmy instances. I don't think it is working for kbin either.

eg. https://fedia.io/m/ukdtt/t/143141/DTT-licence-updates-26-Jul-2023 - posted from feddit.uk to a fedia.io magazine (and has successfully reached the home instance), has not turned up on https://rabbitea.rs/c/ukdtt@fedia.io

Checking other magazines I don't think this is working properly for any of them, but don't know if it is just fedia or a wider kbin problem.

Anyone else seen similar?

@jerry

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This saturday!

#fedia

What happens if'n I follow a non-Kbin/non-Lemmy account, like a Mastodon? Where do I see content from that, will it show up as a thread? Or a magazine? Or...?

#fedia

Hey Guys. I'm trying to subscribe to an external communitu (battlemaps@lemmy.world), but i'm not sure what the syntax is for such a search. Manually inputting fedia.io/m/battlemaps@lemmy.world to the URL doesn't seem to help either. Am I missing something?

#fedia

These error 500s are driving me nuts. In the past day I can no longer visit my own profile because of the #error500. I can see my notifications, but I’ve become completely unable to continue a lemmy.world thread for which I have replies & need to reply back to.

#kbinBug #kbin #bug #fedia