Using the Summit android app I regularly get 500s on some posts with no useful information in the error details. Not sure if it's limited to Lemmy.world. Has anyone else has issues?

Discussion here:

https://lemmy.today/post/61435040

Lemmy.today currently has it available at:

https://alexandrite.lemmy.today/lemmy.today

Also note: I don't know how many people use the mlmym frontend (which is presently available at https://old.lemmy.today/ though not presently listed in the lemmy.today instance sidebar), but one thing pointed out in that thread and a linked-to thread is that mlmym also appears to be unmaintained, though there are apparently some forks.

Just wanted to provide a heads up to users and to @mrmanager@lemmy.today, if he's not presently aware.

There anything we can do about downvoting bots/accounts from this instance? If so how should we report ones like https://lemmy.today/u/rune

Edit: based on the silence and continuation of behavior from this obvious sock account https://lemmy.today/u/rune answer is nothing and apparently approved by admins.

About using bots on lemmy.today

There has been quite a few reports lately about people using bots and llms to create and upvote content. I wanted to make a post to discuss this.

In my opinion, bots are a tool to quickly create or repost content. And its how users use that tool that is important for whether or not it will make lemmy a better or worse place.

Two examples:

User A

• User A frequently visits reddit and would like to quickly share content that he thinks is actually good and would be liked on lemmy.
• He uses a bot or some other tool to do this quickly and conveniently.
• Most of the posts are generally liked by the community, sometimes ending up on the frontpage, with many comments from many different users.
• A few users are complaining about bot content but the majority seems to appreciate the posts.

User B

• User B also uses a similar repost bot or a llm to generate content, but they decide that lemmy needs a lot of content and it doesnt matter so much weather or not its actually good.
• The main idea is to repost or generate as much as possible and lets users decide what they like.
• They create 30 posts in a day, where almost none of them are actually interesting for the lemmy community. Posts have no comments, and most of them are only upvoted by other bot users.
• Many users are complaining that they now see tons of low quality posts in their feeds because of this user.

How will we moderate this

In my mind, the lemmy community is fine with user A but not user B. So it requires moderators to make a decision about the content someone is creating. Does it make lemmy better or worse for the majority?

Thats how Im thinking about this, and if you want to share your own ideas or comments, I would love reading them. If you agree, easiest way is to upvote. If you dont, I would love a comment even more so I can understand some other point of view. :)

Thanks!

Hey,

I switched from lemmy.world to lemmy.today about a week ago. I am enjoying lemmy.today but still figuring some things out, and wanting to walk away from using my lemmy.world profile.

I created some communities on lemmy.world before moving here, and have been trying to add my .today profile as mod to them, but I can't find some of those communities through lemmy.today.

https://lemmy.world/c/missingpersons

https://lemmy.world/c/eattherich

https://lemmy.world/c/bjg

But when I search on https://lemmy.today/communities - these communities do not appear. What am I doing wrong?

I ended up typing in https://lemmy.today/c/bjg@lemmy.world to find one community, and left comments there to interact with it, and be able to add myself as mod, but the comments are not appearing on my lemmy.world profile. it's as if my .today profile was shadow banned.

So I typed in https://lemmy.today/c/missingpersons@lemmy.world and it simply shows "no posts" even though there are three posts on that small, largely inactive community. What is going on?

Same issue with https://lemmy.today/c/eattherich@lemmy.world, it says "no posts" even though it is a somewhat active community.

It's odd because I have other communities that I mod that were available and it wasn't an issue.

Please offer any advise or comments you have.

Hope this post makes sense.

Thank you

Hi guys,

Im doing some saturday testing for old.lemmy.today again.

Currently login is required for old.lemmy.today to read posts there. If you are already logged in, you wont notice any difference.

The reason im experimenting is because bots are hammering it, and I wanted to get some statistics of load if I simply dont allow anonymous scraping. Some bots are passing Anubis and scraping content.

So just log in if you havent and it will work just as before.

Thank you!

I recently switched from lemmy.world to lemmy.today, and I'm happy with lemmy.today. I think it's the right instance for me.

I have been using the Sync app for 3 years and it's dropbar doesn't have an option to login with a lemmy.today account. I don't know who to contact about it or if there's another way to login on Sync.

The sidebar on the lemmy.today instance recommends Sync as one of the apps to use with the instance. But I think this recommendation should be removed from the sidebar if it's not supported on that app.

I was shuffling through different Lemmy apps and saw a notice from Jerboa that I think the app will stop being available on Android in 2027 because Android will demand too much information from users or something. I can't get the notice to pop up again at this moment.

Boost is working nicely. At first glance, I think I like it more than Sync.

Hi guys,

We are now trying out Anubis in front of https://old.lemmy.today/ to see if we can block many of the bots scraping lemmy content.

You will notice an image saying Anubis is checking if you are a bot, and then things should work normally after that.

There are many millions of ips trying to scrape lemmy content so blocking on ip level is difficult. Hopefully this improves the situation somewhat. :)

Thanks to @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com for sharing info about Anubis!

Edit: It was a lot better to just turn off public access of posts on old.lemmy.today, so we are actually not using Anunis anymore. Just log in to old.lemmy.today and things will work as normal.

Hi,

We had a DDOS attack against old.lemmy.today which overloaded the entire server for about 20 minutes. I had to turn off old.lemmy.today temporarily and will look through logs and probably block more chinese ip ranges, since thats where it came from.

Always something to do. :) Keeping this as sticky for a while to inform everyone.

Edit: I added more ip blocks for Chinese networks and hopefully it will keep future bots away. Bringing up the old.lemmy.today user interface again...

Edit 2: Had to take it down again due to massive bot scraping. Currently down.

Edit 3: Decided to require login for old.lemmy.today instead of using anubis.

Hi guys,

There is some disk maintenance taking place for the next few days at our hosting provider Hetzner, and they say disk performance could be less than normal but remain operational.

It will affect our images only if it affects anything at all. So if you notice slow images, its temporary for the coming two days only. Probably we dont notice it but wanted to give a heads up. :)

Thank you!

Not sure what's going on, but for at least today and yesterday, I've seen a fairly high rate of server errors when attempting to load a number of different sorts of pages. I've seen this happen with attempting to view a post (including on communities that are not locally hosted), and attempting to view user pages.

As far as I can tell, if one keeps reloading, one eventually gets through, if you're hitting this. No idea as to cause

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all I see is:

Error!

There was an error on the server. Try refreshing your browser. If that doesn't work, come back at a later time. If the problem persists, you can seek help in the Lemmy support community or Lemmy Matrix room.

Sorry I can't provide any additional information, but I can't think of much other information.

An example page:

https://lemmy.today/post/55800972

This successfully showed up on, I believe, my sixth reload. The seventh reload was an error again (so it's not a "it works once and then keeps working" problem for a given page). I've seen it on various networks on my end, so I'm pretty sure that I'm not a factor.

https://lestat.org/ doesn't show errors, so whatever it is, it's not tripping their error detector.

hello. i'm a happy user of lemmy.today.

i've always used the mlmym frontend available on old.lemmy.today, it generally works well enough. however, there are some minor minor bugs and missing features. (e.g. impossible to navigate to next page when viewing saved posts, impossible to see down/upvotes separated)

i recently came across this fork of mlmym (from this github issue) and it seems to have all those bugs fixed. can we replace the current mlmym with this fork?

thanks for reading

Hi everyone!

Main theme updated today

The original cyberpunkish theme has been updated quite a lot today. A lot of things were not properly themed in the old version and the code was just hacked together. Im not a web designer so im learning while I go.

New version is rewritten from scratch and attempts to properly theme the entire Lemmy user interface. Its also using variables everywhere for how things look and feel.

Future plans

1. Make a light version of this theme.
2. Share with the lemmy community so it can be used on other instances. Upvote the post if you would like this theme as a choice on your instance.

Huge thanks to Allero

Ive been getting so much feedback on this theme during development from @Allero@lemmy.today, and he (or she) has managed to find lots of things that didnt look quite right. The theme is so much better now because of this help. Super grateful to have had a partner in crime on this one. :)

Important / How to update

In the web browser, you should refresh the theme. Hold shift, hit the reload button, and you should see the new version pop up.

So whats changed?

Quite a lot actually. Almost everything has been tuned to some degree.

• Added a top bar to complete the look. We use rounded shapes here and in the navigation menus, as an intentional contrast to the more square look of the elements below it.

• The editor and post view has been restyled with proper support for images, headlines and other things. The sidebar also improved.

• Comment indent lines changed a bit to be more in the background.

• Comments are styling code blocks, images, markdown and other things.

• Post cards got their rails tuned down a bit, and the upvote and downvote arrows follow the theme colors. There is no underline on the card links anymore, for a cleaner look and feel.

• Tables got a bit of cyberpunk feel to them

• Settings changed its look as well

• Listboxes are themed just like everything else

• And dropdown menus

And lots more small details everywhere.

If you see something that is not themed or not looking correct, please let me know and it will be fixed. :)

Hi guys,

One interesting aspect of Lemmy being federated is that there are a lot of broken servers out there who constantly fails to federate. It can be anything that speaks activitypub really, and some of those servers are not properly federating, causing a super long queue of messages not being sent or received.

Ive been adding the most broken ones to our block list so we dont spend resources trying to talk to them. We are still federating with all activitypub servers that behave normally, so this is not about blocking instances that we dont like. This is about blocking broken ones only.

Just wanted to make a post about it so you guys know, in case you see that our instance is blocking instances now. Yes, we do, but only instances that dont federate properly. Otherwise we will continue trying to talk to them forever, wasting resources.

Thats it, just some info. Have a good week!

Hi everyone,

Tomorrow our hosting provider Hetzner needs to do an upgrade of their network components, and this affects the network disk we have pictures on.

We will therefore turn off the instance during this time. If you live in Orlando, you will probably be sleeping anyway, but europeans may notice how their memes refuse to load during this time. But we will be back as soon as Hetzner finishes the maintenance. Could be earlier than expected too. We will see.

Edit after downtime: Maintenance seems to have went well, server is up. :)

https://lemmy.today/post/48507627

All thanks to @mrmanager@lemmy.today. Good job, sir!

Hi guys,

So I decided to change the default theme to cyberpunkish.css to make this instance look different from a default lemmy instance.

If a lot of people tell me this is a shitty idea and I should not do this, I will revert it. Just wanted to give this instance a style of its own. The default theme is still there under lemmy_default.css if you prefer it.

Let me know if you have strong feelings about it, one way or the other!

Hi everyone!

There is a new theme called cyberpunkish in the web interface settings now.

I wanted to create a theme for this instance and this is my first stab at it. If you try it out, any feedback is very welcome!

I edited this post to show how it looks now in latest version. I will sticky this post for a day so regular users dont miss info about it.

Frontpage:

Comments:

Communities:

Huge thanks to @Allero@lemmy.today for so much great feedback about the theme.

If many people think its great, perhaps we set it as default for the instance.

Hi guys,

The server just got upgraded to double the memory and cores. We had some peak periods where 8 GB was not enough to run everything, and now we get 8 more cores as well to serve more memes faster. :)

Plenty of room for more users too, if they should decide to join.

Thanks for picking this instance, guys. Enjoy Lemmy!

I cannot post pictures anymore. Is that a thing now? Maybe I got banned from posting images without telling you why or what I did wrong? I assume I did something wrong. Only recently I found the mod log and dude, nobody told me that existed.

The error:

"Unexpected end of JSON..."

The attackers found another slow db query to exploit, so had to put some temporary measures in place.

Will post more details later!

This time they actually took down the instance for several hours.

Hi guys,

I wanted to ask you about our local communities here. I feel like a lot of them are not really active, and the most active one (like Conservative) has mostly locked posts, so people cant participate in discussions.

I wanted to get some input from you guys, what do you think? Should we have communities with locked posts so people cant comment? Does it still serve a purpose? Or should communities always allow discussions? My own opinion is that they should.

And should we clean up communities and remove inactive ones, making more room for local discussions?

The reason I started thinking about this is because I noticed that some other instances remove posts that are completely legal to discuss. They are just removed because admins/moderators dont like their content. Which is exactly like on reddit then.

Hi guys,

Another ddos attack so site was slow/unavailable for a while.

I disabled the alternative user interfaces since they are used in the attacks. Will think of some better long term solutions. 🥊 😄

At 18 seconds into this speech Trumps Pinky disappears under his hand and his ring finger 'becomes' his pinky. This is clearly AI.

I keep hearing a lot about piefed and I'm curious to try it. I really like this instance, though. Is there something similarly hands off out there for piefed?