crashdoom

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[–] crashdoom@pawb.social 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Apologies, a configuration change resulted in the entire database being taken down affecting all of the services. This was a preemptive change for the upgrade we're planning in the next few days, but clearly the existing DB was not prepared for it. https://t.me/pawbsocial/210

[–] crashdoom@pawb.social 4 points 9 months ago

We're looking to perform an upgrade this weekend to see if this alleviates the issue. There seem to be quite a lot of problems lately with emails and comments where they either don't send, or return an unhelpful "this is a toast" prompt... which isn't useful. We'll have a follow-up announcement soon.

[–] crashdoom@pawb.social 4 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Yes! This is on our radar for the next service we set up! We're working to migrate and stabilize the database before rolling out new services, but expect that'll occur this weekend, so hopefully before the end of the year we should have some news on the Pixelfed front :3

[–] crashdoom@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also got this myself… Seeming like the API is throwing errors despite working (…what?! >.>). Taking a look

[–] crashdoom@pawb.social 6 points 10 months ago

If anyone has been struggling to get a verification email:

  • Please ensure you check your spam folder (We’ve been having some mail delivery issues with AWS)
  • Send an email to network@pawb.social using the same email you created your account with, and include your username, and we’ll manually approve it in the database

We’re working to figure out what’s going on but it seems to be a mix of issues

[–] crashdoom@pawb.social 1 points 10 months ago

Investigating this! Apologies for the inconvenience!

[–] crashdoom@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looking like I had an off-by-one error, it's actually fixed in the beta for 0.19.6; Will look at upgrading to that to fix the issue, just reviewing the changes to make sure there's nothing else major there.

[–] crashdoom@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

👋 This isn't just you! We're aware of the issue and believe that the latest version of Lemmy should fix it; It seems to be an issue with the cookies being set with Strict instead of Lax causing it to not be sent by your browser.

Full announcement for maintenance to perform the upgrade: https://pawb.social/post/14286683

[–] crashdoom@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago

👋 This isn't just you! We're aware of the issue and believe that the latest version of Lemmy should fix it; It seems to be an issue with the cookies being set with Strict instead of Lax causing it to not be sent by your browser.

Full announcement for maintenance to perform the upgrade: https://pawb.social/post/14286683

[–] crashdoom@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

👋 Apologies for the late reply, but we have been investigating and believe that this isn't an isolated case.

It initially appears like our database is being overloaded due to the vast queries that Lemmy runs for generating statistics, so we're trialing a hardware upgrade for a new database server backed by NVMe drives to hopefully improve the throughput.

We're not quite ready to go live with it yet, we're still ensuring everything is in working order and the database replicates successfully from the live copy to the new database reliably.

We're hoping to have this in place before the end of September and we'll post an announcement for maintenance when we go to do the switchover, as the change will also affect furry.engineer and pawb.fun.

[–] crashdoom@pawb.social 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oops, that's entirely valid and I should have explained. A limit means that the instance is effectively hidden from view on furry.engineer and pawb.fun. All of the content still exists and can be found if searching or interacting (like following a user on tenforward.social), but won't appear on the public timelines and won't be recommended to our users.

If someone from tenforward.social tries to mention someone on furry.engineer or pawb.fun, and they aren't being followed by that person, the message may not be visible. Similarly, if someone from tenforward.social tries to follow a furry.engineer, or pawb.fun user, they'll instead send a follow request that you'll need to approve.

 

owo

 
  • Instance: lemmygrad.ml
  • Type: Defederation
  • Affects: Pawb.Social (Lemmy) only
  • Reason: Trolling, disruptive behavior, tankie instance
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by crashdoom@pawb.social to c/adminlog@pawb.social
 
  • Instance: seal.cafe
  • Type: Defederation
  • Affects: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun
  • Reason: Trolling, no moderation policy
 

Firstly, I'd like to apologize for the lack of transparency we've had on Pawb.Social, compared to our usual standards with the Mastodon instances.

We should ensure that all of our users are well aware of when we make important decisions that may affect their abilities to view content from other instances.

So for that, I'm sorry.

Secondly, we've now created an additional community over at /c/adminlog which will document all of the administrative-level decisions taken by the Admin team which won't show up in the Modlog.

These decisions will include: Defederation, removal of community images (banners / icons), addition / removal of moderators, and addition / removal of instance admins.

We'll prefix each post with tags to identify what type of action it is at a glance followed by the instance or community name, and detail in the post what action we took and why we took it.

If you have any questions or concerns, you can leave them here or post them in the feedback community as many of you already have done.

Thanks, Crashdoom

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by crashdoom@pawb.social to c/adminlog@pawb.social
 

After reviewing a recent post by the administrator of sh.itjust.works and comments from the community, we've decided to revoke the defederation action.

We're hoping that proactive moderation strategies and development to Lemmy's moderation tools help us avoid the need to defederate from instances like sh.itjust.works in the future.


Original defederation info:

  • Instance: sh.itjust.works
  • Type: Defederation
  • Affects: Pawb.Social (Lemmy) only
  • Reason: We defederated from sh.itjust.works due repeated abuse from users and the open-registration policy permitting this.
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16351

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15953

Hi all!

So, I'm assuming everyone has seen links like https://beehaw.org/c/news and clicked through to find it doesn't work right because it's a different site (I'm assuming a different instance here).

Well, I just stumbled across an interesting feature: if you enter a link in the following format, it works for everyone regardless of instance of origin:

[News](/c/news@beehaw.org)

News

[My User](/u/barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev)

My User

You're welcome!

 

Important Update

We’re going to be setting up a fork to maintain some separation, add additional features, and remove references due to raised concerns.

So, we will not be changing software, and will be continuing business as usual.

We've forked the repositories and they can be found at these URLs: https://github.com/PawbSocial/lemmy and https://github.com/PawbSocial/lemmy-ui.

You can follow the instructions at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/02-local-development.html for setting up a local development environment.


[ original post continues ]

Hey everyone!

We received feedback that raised concerns regarding the apparent moderation and censorship issues around lemmy.ml, and allegations made by Feditips about the Lemmy developers.

We'd appreciate some feedback from users of our community (users here, or on the Fediverse), furry.engineer, and pawb.fun.

As it stands, we have defederated from one of the more prominent problematic instances, lemmygrad.ml, but haven't taken any action against lemmy.ml.

So the question stands: Should we continue running Lemmy, or swap to an alternative?

The currently considered alternative would be kbin.pub (example instance: kbin.social) which shares being a FOSS project with full ActivityPub support.

If we continue to run Lemmy, we wouldn't be opposed to having a forked version that removes certain elements from the UI, such as the donate icon, but, we would require community assistance to maintain this fork.


Receipts:

 

Maintenance on both instances has concluded!


  • 11:32 AM MST: All feeds on pawb.fun have been regenerated, and maintenance is now concluded.
  • 11:25 AM MST: pawb.fun is back online! Feeds are being re-generated so this may take a little while and you may see a blank timeline until the system re-generates yours.
  • 11:12 AM MST: pawb.fun data has been transferred and is being loaded into Postgres.
  • 10:57 AM MST: Maintenance on pawb.fun has begun.

  • 11:09 AM MST: All feeds on furry.engineer have been regenerated, and maintenance is now concluded.
  • 10:54 AM MST: furry.engineer is back online! Feeds are being re-generated so this may take a little while and you may see a blank timeline until the system re-generates yours.
  • 10:37 AM MST: furry.engineer data has been transferred and is being loaded into Postgres once more.
  • 10:00 AM MST: Maintenance on furry.engineer has begun.

On June 10th, starting at 10 AM MST, we'll be migrating furry.engineer and pawb.fun back to the main server infrastructure.

We expect the transfers to take no longer than an hour each to complete, starting with furry.engineer and following with pawb.fun.

After the maintenance, it may take up to an hour for the feeds to be regenerated so your timeline may appear blank or be missing posts -- Don't panic!

The Lemmy instance, pawb.social, will remain online throughout the transfer and we'll be updating this topic with the status as we progress.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.anji.nl/post/7961

Some of the planned blackouts will be temporary, others plan to shut their subreddits down indefinitely in protest.

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