Hi! I'm DCE. Joined SDF to learn more about NetBSD, as well as for the services that come with the shell account.

Unfortunately, I have forgotten my password, but at least I can get into Lemmy!

Hey, this is once again related to the restored lost content. From between May 2026-circa October 2025.

As far as i can tell, the only lost upclicks are on the content you yourself posted, in that time period, but I haven't really investigated further. Your upclicks on external posts (outside sdf) were definitely unaffected though.

One other thing you might notice is that comment threads are broken, all comments and replies appear as top comments.

Unfortunately not. I am however working on decoupling mlmym from lemmy's internal API structures, so in the future, adding support to mbin should be much easier. However, the priority supporting the v4 API (for lemmy's upcoming 1.0.0 update), so I expect this will still take quite a while :)

I'll just run all of them, and you can't stop me! MWAHAHAHAHA.

...but also thank you. MLMYM is one of the best ways to make Lemmy approachable for new users IMO and anything to keep it current is appreciated.

On that topic though, you happen to know any fork of it that is compatible with Mbin?

The FHF fork hasn't been updated in a while. I hate to do self-promotion, but I have my own fork of mlmym (based on the FHF version) you can use if you want, which has quite a few bugs fixed and some new features.

There's also another fork (based on my version) now, which is running on old.lemmy.zip.

Oh good it's not just me.

I finally gave up and started running MLMYM on my local machine. I find the Fedihosting Fork seems to work a little better than rystaf's

I think the real problem is that nobody keeping the lights on at SDF is using Lemmy on the daily.

Anyway the data recovery from the long outage seems to have partially restored 2 communities I created before it happened, so as best I can tell they now exist as zombie communities with no moderator? Fun stuff. /c/DrugNerds and /c/Virology.

See? it's fixed now. I told you so.

I think I've witnessed activity on OpenVOIP a whole one time

just email membership, i suspect they dont know its broken

The Great Monthlong Outage earlier this year was what finally made me spin up my own instance. I love sdf, but it really can't be relied on.

With a gun. Or if you don't have that, just can use a rope.

You need to call in to anonradio and threaten to kill yourself live on the air.

The thread of the bug report I submitted reveals that SDF is not /expressly/ blocking thelemmy.club, at least not transparently. So this leaves these possibilities:

• opaque secret blocking of thelemmy.club perhaps using a firewall
• community-specific blocking that suppresses both Android and mildlyinfuriating
• software defect

After SDF was down for ~9 months, it never fully recovered from the re-opening. So possible there is some obscure software defect related to federating.

If it’s the 1st bullet, I would say it’s likely intentional.. but not necessarily. If, for example, thelemmy.club had a local user with shared IP attacking or annoying SDF in some way, SDF would perhaps block the IP not realising that thelemmy.club uses the same IP.

There is a first for everything. Lemmy users cannot arbitrarily post to unfederated /communities/. To federate to an external community, at least one user on the host (SDF in my case) must subscribe to it. To do that, they must search for it by its full name. IOW, use the search tool to search for something you already know exists. Sometimes it takes a couple attempts because it tries to contact the external host on the spot at that moment. If it finds the community, then the user must subscribe to it. Then they can post there, as well as anyone else on the same host.

Only one person needs to be subscribed. If the first subscriber unsubscribes, then I believe it goes back to the original state of being an unknown (unfederated) community.

The problem in the case at hand is if an SDF user searches for a specific known community hosted by thelemmy.club, that whole host is defederated. So the user-hostile search tool assaults our dignity by outputting no results (instead of doing the dignified diplomatic thing and explain to the user that thelemmy.club is deliberately defederated). In fact, this is a bug. I am reporting it. brb.

(update) Added a bug report:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/59309326

im not sure about others but piefed you can't choose additional communities to post in on initial posting which I would like to do sometimes.

It seems weird that the admins would be blocking that server as this is a low-fediblock server. I'm not sure that prior thread conclusively proves it's intentional.

:(

That's very weird.

I see traffic from lemmy.world all over the place, so it can't be a full defed.

moderator of lemmyfederate@lemmy.world?

https://lemmy.world/u/MrKaplan

but:

Pinging @iso@lemy.lol (the mod of lemmyfederate@lemy.lol, which is a less restrictive Cloudflare node).

(edit) found this: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/38602189/21429929

well, i'm saying this might not be on purpose, but a result of the outage (that spawned many issues, like being unable to creature communities)

Your reply doesn’t seem to follow. I believe NOT_ALLOWED implies that lemmy.sdf.org defederated from thelemmy.club. Along with others:

europe.pub             NOT_ALLOWED     
fedia.io               NOT_ALLOWED     
hackingne.ws           NOT_ALLOWED     
indie-ver.se           NOT_ALLOWED     
lemmy.nz               NOT_ALLOWED     
lemmy.sdf.org          NOT_ALLOWED     
lemmy.world            NOT_ALLOWED     
lemmynsfw.com          NOT_ALLOWED     
news.abolish.capital   NOT_ALLOWED     
pawb.social            NOT_ALLOWED     
quokk.au               NOT_ALLOWED     
suppo.fi               NOT_ALLOWED     

It’s confusing because LW is one of the nodes that has NOT_ALLOWED !Android@thelemmy.club, implying that they also defederated from !Android@thelemmy.club. Maybe LW refederated and the dataset is out of date.

Who is the moderator of lemmyfederate@lemmy.world? I cannot see because lemmy.world is in Cloudflare’s walled garden and I am excluded.

its not defederation, its just sdf

i check by going to lemmy.world/c/name@instance.tld

That was my first thought but I can never remember how to check that. Then I had a look at one of my fedi scripts and realised I already wrote the code to work that out. Wow.. I hate when I write some useful code then forget that I even have it.

So indeed you are correct. My script to find relationships to a community piped to grep '(sdf|lemmy.ml)' yields:

lemmy.sdf.org          NOT_ALLOWED
lemmy.ml               NOT_AVAILABLE   

That’s from the lemmy-federate.com dataset. I guess NOT_AVAILABLE means the db does not know whether lemmy.ml federates or defederates with that community.

I’ve never used a phone app for lemmy so I’m not familiar with your search tool. Interesting that it supports multiple accounts and searches all of them.