I naturally upvote myself when I post, because naturally I agree 100% with every single thing I say -- without exception. Lemmy devs know this, so the client is coded to automatically upvote my own posts.

Now most of my upvotes for myself are gone. Interestingly, they are not 100% gone. A minority of them seem to have persisted, as well as my upvotes for others. I have no idea what extent the voting data was lost, or if my votes on content of other SDF locals was lost.

I wrote this post and linked to this (now non-existent) comment:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/52446618/26894334

The post that the comment falls under is still there, but the link to the comment is broken.

Querying the sitewide modlog on myself is not interesting. Just shows some unrelated nutty shit with a slrpnk.net mod. The thread looks like just a conversation with myself, effectively thinking out loud as I dig more. If the comment were by me and deleted by myself, there would be a trace left of it. Or even if it were someone else’s comment, a placeholder would be left.

My best theory is that SDF had some data loss or disaster, and they rebuilt the DB in a way that caused comments to get a new primary key. But wouldn’t the post have gotten a new number as well?

I think I linked to the comment that is now:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/52446618/24104545

but strangely, that id number is smaller than the comment that was written before it.

Image uploads haven't worked for 2 days. Additionally, all profile images and previously uploading images are broken.

I feel like every month it's one thing or another on this instance. And whatever it is usually stays broken for weeks. New community creation has been broken literally for 7+ months.

Should I give it all again, or just give up?

Vented some of my rage here:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/59270793

I appreciate having an outlet for my rant. But it was not enough. I am too contained for this level of rage. I needed to expand the rage outlet to !mildlyinfurating@thelemmy.club but was blocked. SDF ignores that host (as we know).

Being blocked from unleashing outrage is in itself infurating.

So then I found furiouslyinfuriating, but it was hosted inside the shitty walled-garden of Cloudflare, which the corporate bootlickers of sh.itjust.works ironically supports.

I think I need an outragiouslyfuriouslyinfuriating community.

it exists:

thelemmy.club/c/Android

but searching for !Android@thelemmy.club yields nothing.

I'm not sure if @SDF@lemmy.sdf.org reads this, but I created !Virology@lemmy.sdf.org and !DrugNerds@lemmy.sdf.org during the gap, and while they now appear in a search, I'm no longer the mod, can anyone fix?

old.lemmy.sdf.org is down again

Are you guys looking for an experienced linux admin? I can help set up monitoring via prometheus and uptime kuma or anything else you guys might need help with.

🫡

It looks like it got replaced with:

mlmym

Do you like the "old" interface?

SDF is malconfigured. The “Create Community” option is given at the top of the screen, which means SDF is configured to allow usres to create new communities.

We get a blank form. We take the time to fill out all the details of the new community. Then when we click “Create” we get a bogus error popup falsely claiming that the community already exists.

Is this the “meta” community of this instance? It’s not exactly clear from the “fans of SDF” description.¹

The question is, why can’t I find !foss_requests@libretechni.ca in an SDF-executed search? I would like to post there from here.

¹side rant: it’s a bit annoying that every Lemmy instance gives a different name to their forum for local instance-specific support/chatter without having a designation. I sort the communities with oldest first and hope something that resembles the /meta/ of the instance is on top.

Posting because I seem to be having issues where just opening the app to the "Subscribed" view while logged into this instance is timing out almost every time. Even when it doesn't, if I scroll to the end of the successfully loaded posts, it often shows the "failed to load, try again?" button at the bottom of the screen.

This has been happening ever since this instance was brought back up. If I switch to anonymous browsing things start loading almost instantly. Is the SDF instance bandwidths limited for federating or something?

ETA: I should also mention that it often takes over 20 seconds (the Jerboa client timeout) for the same page to load in the browser client, so I don't think the fundamental issue is exclusive to Jerboa, Jerboa just gives up faster.

I get a JSON error when trying to upload via post or comment, and the picture size is only ~390kb.

JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

Since sdf went down I realized how important was for me to backup my data (especially my saved content) the problem is I haven't done it.

I only have saved stuff from a year or more ago now and I can't sort my home posts to top three months (no content shows). Is there anything to be done or is it lost forever? If there is hope is there a way to backup everything without doing it manually post by post?

Ty in advance

I hope this is the right place to ask:

My inbox was reset to 9 months ago. I had a ton of unread messages that are gone. Are settings that I applied (subscribing to channels, blocking trolls (almost never cause I disagree with blocking), other customization) before the site went offline lost / need manual updates?

Let's go, Lemmy SDF!

I just randomly kept trying this site whenever I thought of it. I'm so happy it's back. I paused / gave up on Lemmy cause I didn't want to create a new profile on an instance that blocks others or otherwise isn't open. I love you, SDF!

We're so back!

was lemmy.sdf.org down for you?

the outage was reported several times on bboard, but judging by the admin response, it seems like there never was any problem.

I keep randomly getting this error today while browsing.