Using Thunder on my phone, I'm getting perpetual messages that Feddit UK is not responding. Online, I'm straight in no problem.

Obviously something is going on but I'm not sure what!

Sorry about the long downtime everyone. What happened is sometime around 20:00 yesterday the instance went down. I wouldn't be able to ssh into the server until the morning, so I tried restarting the server through our hosting's web interface, but this didn't work.

When I got home I found the reason Lemmy wasn't working was because the database had suffered some corruption. Thankfully, the only lost data was 3 posts, but some data got duplicated in random tables that shouldn't be and this wasn't the easiest thing to track down.

Why did the server go down in the first place?

I don't actually know the real reason, what I suspect happened is that the frontend got taken down by the rampant scraping we've been subject to. To put it into prospective, just look at the jump in the size of our web logs:

These are compressed plain text, like it's unreal.

But back to the server, I think when I restarted the server to get everything back up, docker killed the database before it had shutdown properly hence the corruption.

Anyway, it's sorted now. It's going to be a bit quiet until we've caught up with the activities we've missed, so enjoy the quiet while you can.

Anybody else getting this with feddit.uk? I had to dust off an alt to post this, seems to only be affecting this instance, and possibly only me? Any guesses as to what I've done wrong would be really appreciated.

Link: https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/feddit.uk

Not that I hold issue with lemmy.world, I'm just wondering what it means in terms of hierarchy.

E.g. if lemmy.world goes bad and tries to take over the world, what power can they wield over feddit.uk?

As of yesterday, when trying to load feddit.uk on my mobile device, I consistently get a ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR response, but not on a desktop device.

I've tried switching to using a VPN rather than my home network, and get the same result. I've also tried switching to using mobile data rather than using my wifi network with the same.

I have attempted to load in the DuckDuckGo browser and in the Google Chrome browser on android.

Has anyone else had this or is this down to my device somehow?

Young Brits are set to benefit from Dutch style employment support as the Government steps up localised support to tackle rising NEET numbers.

• Government to open almost 180 Dutch-style Youth Hubs over next two years to tackle rising youth unemployment as nation’s NEET number hits one million

• Visting the Netherlands, the Work and Pensions Secretary saw how Dutch ‘Jongerenpunt’ youth points are bringing services under one roof, helping them record Europe’s lowest NEET rate

• Secretary of State vows to learn from the Netherlands’ approach where young people are given multiple chances through work-study pathways, employer partnerships and apprenticeships to build a system where “inactivity is a last resort”

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/37035115

Hey people,

Thank you again for coming together and submitting songs to Lemmyvision, it's heartwarming to see different communities of the fediverse participate in sharing their musical interest.

The voting form is available here: https://tally.so/r/GxY0ze

Everyone is welcome to vote, even if your instance or community did not participate! This is a great opportunity to discover new music, and cultures.

@Ategon@programming.dev took the time to create a playlist over at https://d2jam.com/c/lemmyvision-3 feel free to check it out!

Here's the full list of submitted songs:

• Vita - Merz Leck Eier
• Ecca Vandal - Bleach
• Boy Golden - Suffer
• Angine de Poitrine - Fabienk
• Elisapie - Uummati Attanarsimat (Heart of Glass) [Hologramme Remix]
• Igorrr - Limbo
• Signes à L'Œil - Quand on arrive en ville (D. Balavoine, N. Workman)
• Hyphen - This Might Be It
• Cris03sora - Markhamia Castle
• Swerve Strickland - Hit Different
• Jamie Paige - Birdbrain (w/ OK Glass) feat. Kasane Teto
• HAYASii - Hunting Soul
• Mudrat - Bars

The form will be available until around the 11th of May, I will then collect the results and publish them shortly after. I hope you’ll have a lot of fun listening to the 13 songs submitted for this edition. Don’t hesitate if you have any question!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/67858553

Join the Pledge to boycott lemmy.world!

🏴‍☠️ Hoist the Black Flag: Pledge to Boycott Lemmy World!

... if Lemmy World dares to defederate from any ship in the Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/, https://anarchist.nexus/, and https://quokk.au/.

Mateys, we can’t let a mega‑instance captain bully the rest of the fleet just because their ship’s bigger. If Lemmy World tries to throw the FAF overboard, we’re calling for a show of solidarity: a fediverse blockade of Lemmy World in response, until the landlubbers see reason (i.e., there is an acceptable change in their leadership and/or this policy).

This is about mutual aid, not mutiny - standing together so no single admin gets to rule the seas unchallenged. A united armada of smaller instances can absolutely blunt Lemmy World’s outsized influence (and, let’s be honest, their ego).

☠️ A word to the captains: before hoisting colours or locking in a course, we ask ye to let your crew have their say. Run a poll, open the deck for discussion, and listen to the voices aboard your vessel. These seas belong to all of us, and decisions that shape our fediverse should be made together, not from the captain’s quarters alone.

If other captains be keen to chart this course with us, drop anchor and make the pledge public in the comments. The more hands on deck, the harder it is to sink any one of us. Let us know if you are holding a vote!

dbzer0 and AN members can vote on this pledge in !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com, and quokk.au will be holding their own vote.

🏴‍☠️ Solidarity forever, and fair winds to the Flotilla!

From the blurb: "We looked into how one of the most powerful surveillance companies in the world is being handed sweeping access to your NHS data - quietly and without your consent."

According to the British Horseracing Authority, modern steeplechase races have an average of just over 4 equine fatalities for every 1,000 horses taking part in a race.[1] The Aintree Grand National yielded 7 equine fatalities out of 439 horses taking part between 2000 and 2010, a rate of almost 16 equine fatalities per 1,000 horses taking part (or 0.64 fatalities per race of 40 horses). In the five years to 2023, the fatality rate has risen by one-third, averaging 25 equine fatalities per 1,000 horses taking part (or one fatality per race of 40 horses).[2][3]

How many d'ya reckon this year? I have this crazy friend who says it's wrong to exploit horses to make money and entertain drunken gamblers. Is he crazy?

tværpostet fra: https://feddit.dk/post/20203631

The deposition of coins at the site has taken place since at least the 1960s, with visitors lodging the coins into cracks in the site's stones.[17] As of 2015, the local wardens from The National Trust are tasked with removing said deposits, and around 2010, English Heritage removed information about the coin deposition custom from the site's information panel.[17] The coins removed by the wardens are then donated to local charities.[18] As the folklorist Ceri Houlbrook noted, all of this deposited material "contributes to the ritual narrative of a site".[19]

Modern Pagans, including Druids and Heathens use Wayland's Smithy for ritual purposes. Anthropologist Thorsten Gieser thinks the modern ritualistic use of the site by new age religions to communicate with "ancestors", "spirits of the earth", and an "earth goddess" is symbolic of its folkloric links to Wayland and its use as a prehistoric burial ground.[20]

I quite like channel's 4 coverage over certain topics, it feels sometimes more impartial and more nuanced than BBC News.

They are quite left-leaning, which is great news for me, but I fear others might raise some eyebrows and feel the need to open more right-leaning communities (e.g. "gbnews" "channel5news" etc.) which might then heavily politicize/polarize this somewhat tame server, and also start making it overall more news-oriented, which is always a bad sign.

Yay or nay?

For context this is what I wanted to post on feddit.uk but couldn't find a suitable comm:
https://feddit.uk/post/44877928

Mark 10 years since the brexit referendum

I'm getting an error looking up any community on lemmings.world via my client.

I'm not sure if lemmings.world is down, or the link which allows federation with feddit.uk has broken.

It's difficult to tell when I have no way of viewing lemmings.world any more due to the annoying geoblocking.

I did see a note on the feddit.uk homepage earlier about the server moving so hopefully it's just some IP addresses needing updating.

cc @rikudou@lemmings.world

I have been trying to upload an animated WEBP file to use as part of a post, however I get an error that says the file is "too wide".

The file in question has a resolution of 889x500, and a file size of only 3 MiB. Is this a problem with feddit.uk's image upload settings specifically, or is there a general issue with Lemmy and pict-rs?

Couldn't get onto lemmy.org instance yesterday and today it's refusing logins and redirecting to https://lemmy.org/yunohost/sso/

Anyone else able to see it?

More me being nosy than anything, I was thinking I've not seen much from GreatAlbatross or Emperor in a while and noticed Emperor hasn't posted in 6 months or so and Albatross is no longer listed as an admin. (If you've departed folks, thank you for everything - you resurrected feddit.uk when all hope was lost!)

Does that mean flamingos is the only active admin? Is there a backup plan if (heavens forbid) flamingos gets hit by a bus?

Also just generally curious if there's any instance news or plans going forward.

Just seems like an odd choice to defederate it.

Tbh i was looking forward to engaging in some debate with them.

did they break any actual rules or is it just because they're MAGA?

Edit: Before you angrily comment below (as so many have done so far) please keep in mind that this is a feddit.uk meta community and i am specifically asking the question to feddit.uk mods/admins and inviting discussion from feddit.uk users.

if you are not a feddit.uk user then this entire conversation DOES NOT AFFECT YOU. I have yet to hear from anyone who actually is a feddit.uk user Admin response here

Good day all,

You may notice that some images posted after the 23 August are missing. Sorry about that.

What happened is that I updated some packages through apt, which triggered docker to restart. This caused the pictrs database to become corrupted, but only partly because of the way its db (sled) does things.

I did manage to recover about half of the images through abusing image proxies and browser cache, so there's that at least. The whole of the data is also theoretically recoverable.

Needless to say, I'm going to move pictrs to postgres soon-ish.

Seems to go to an alternate front end, but not load?

Good day all,

Blorp is a web client for Lemmy/PieFed. You can now access it at b.feddit.uk.

It even has a dedicated community — !blorp@lemmy.ml

Very Apple-est, so not my cup of tea, but I know that design language is popular.

I'm not sure if that's my server config or yours. But my PieFed instance over at palaver.p3x.de is having difficulties connecting to feddit.uk
I've narrowed it down to IPv6:

[root@galahad:~]# curl -v -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' "https://feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean"         
* Host feddit.uk:443 was resolved.  
* IPv6: 2a01:4f8:172:1f0d::2                                                                                                                                                                                        
* IPv4: 138.201.83.101  
*   Trying [2a01:4f8:172:1f0d::2]:443...  
* ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1  
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):  
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):  
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):  
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 / x25519 / RSASSA-PSS  
* ALPN: server accepted h2  
* Server certificate:  
*  subject: CN=feddit.uk  
*  start date: Jun 22 09:23:03 2025 GMT  
*  expire date: Sep 20 09:23:02 2025 GMT  
*  subjectAltName: host "feddit.uk" matched cert's "feddit.uk"  
*  issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R11  
*  SSL certificate verify ok.  
*   Certificate level 0: Public key type RSA (2048/112 Bits/secBits), signed using sha256WithRSAEncryption 
*   Certificate level 1: Public key type RSA (2048/112 Bits/secBits), signed using sha256WithRSAEncryption 
*   Certificate level 2: Public key type RSA (4096/152 Bits/secBits), signed using sha256WithRSAEncryption 
* Connected to feddit.uk (2a01:4f8:172:1f0d::2) port 443  
* using HTTP/2  
* [HTTP/2] [1] OPENED stream for https://feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:method: GET]  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:scheme: https]  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:authority: feddit.uk]  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:path: /c/buyeuropean]  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [user-agent: curl/8.12.1]  
* [HTTP/2] [1] [accept: application/activity+json]  
> GET /c/buyeuropean HTTP/2  
> Host: feddit.uk  
> User-Agent: curl/8.12.1  
> Accept: application/activity+json  
> 
* Request completely sent off  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):  
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):  
* HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1)  
* Connection #0 to host feddit.uk left intact  
curl: (92) HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1)  

From my home IPv4 internet connection it works fine. Also once I add an -4 to the curl, it succeds and returns a 200 and the response.

I've opened a bugreport for PieFed but I think we need to find out whether I or feddit.uk has a borked IPv6 config. I can connect to other instances just fine, so I'm gravitating towards there is some issue with feddit.uk

I'm sorry if this is the wrong place for support questions. Feel free to remove the post and point me somewhere else, or delete the post after this has been solved.