Is this Instance Down?

I wonder who will even be able to see this post since this community is hosted on infosec.pub. Just slrpnk.net folks, or others?

I see that someone posted there just 11 hours ago, so it may be temporary.

I was also able to post just now, but I guess mbin masks quite well the case of the host node being offline because it posted fine, probably just to a fedia.io cache of dabradio.

I get a 502 from the website. I think it's been down for a few days.

Server is running, but you are greeted with an error.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/39370362

lemmyonline.com is dead, yet this community came up in a search. Anyone know the history? Is lemmyonline.com perhaps new and access restricted? Or old but dead with residual ghosts?

Not a lemmy instance, but the main PieFed instance piefed.social is down right now.

Only shows a cloudflare error page showing Host error

https://piefed.social/

Very disturbing that this instance vanished spontaneously, like so many small instances do. We don’t even have read access to the content.

The rumor is they are looking to come back as a platform I had not heard of (piefed). Unclear why that could not be explored in parallel to running slrpnk.net.

Update

More answers in this clip:

(I ripped that pic off of programming.dev, a centralised Cloudflare site that I would never send ppl in the free world to, hence why it is a copy).

They have given gratis shell access going back well over a decade. Shame to see it end.

times out from tor

It’s back online with not a peep from the admin as to what happened. Logins work only via the web UI, but it just gives a non-stop stream of “401 the access token is invalid” popups.

spontaneously. No warning to users.

Although I wonder how an instance admin would warn users.

The clearnet server is fine but the onion server¹ is non-responsive.

1. iejideks5zu2v3zuthaxu5zz6m5o2j7vmbd24wh6dnuiyl7c6rfkcryd.onion

The onion host:

http://snb3ufnp67uudsu25epj43schrerbk7o5qlisr7ph6a3wiez7vxfjxqd.onion

is down. Clearnet host is up.

The cert for lemmy.sdf.org has issues. Not sure if it expired or what, but some apps report the key is unusable and only facilitate access after ~3-4 steps of authorizing the bad key. Some apps say the site is unavailable, full stop.. no option to continue.

This just started today.

504 Gateway Time-out

These are Lemmy instances with a “Sign Up” link which present you with a form to fill out to register. Then after you fill out the form and supply information like email address to the server, they respond with “registration closed”:

• lemmy.escapebigtech.info (dead node now, but got instant reg. closed msg when they were alive)
• expats.zone
• hackertalks.com
• lemmie.be
• lemmy.killtime.online
• lemmy.kmoneyserver.com
• lemmy.sarcasticdeveloper.com
• level-up.zone
• zoo.splitlinux.org

I suppose it’s unlikely to be malice considering how many there are. It’s likely a case of shitty software design. There should be a toggle for open/closed registration and when it’s closed there should be no “Sign Up” button in the first place. And if someone visits the registration URL despite a lack of Sign Up link, it should show a reg. closed announcement.

Guess it’s worth mentioning there are some instances that accept your application for review (often with interview field) but then either let your application rot (“pending application” forever) or they silently reject it (you only discover non-acceptance when you make a login attempt and either get “login failed” or even more rudely it just re-renders the login form with no msg). These nodes fall into the selective non-acceptance category:

• lemmy.cringecollective.io
• lemmy.techtriage.guru
• lemmy.hacktheplanet.be (pretends to send confirmation email then silently neglects to)
• links.esq.social
• dubvee.org

To be fair, I use a disposable email address which could be a reason the 5 above to reject my application. And if they did give a reason via email, I would not see it. Not sure if that’s happening but that’s also a case of bad software. That is, when a login attempt is made, the server could present the rationale for refusal. Another software defect would be failing to instantly reject an unacceptible email address.

It’s probably a good thing to find that nlemmy.nl is down, considering the parent of this thread was censored despite not breaking any rules.

(update) the moderator just admitted the removal was to silence an idea that clashes with the moderator’s anti-cash / pro-forced-banking view. So it was not a good place for open civil discussion.. just a black hole for msgs that oppose the mod’s world view.