My RSS reader, Thunderbird, is suddenly throwing errors on all my ani.social feeds (communities, inbox). Trying to verify the URLs through the feed subscriptions window I get a "The Feed URL is not authorized." message.

Looking at the error log, it's complaining about not well formed XML and clicking on the link results in an attempt to complete a Cloudflare "Verify you are human" challenge.

I'm not getting these issues on any other instances. RSS getting blocked like this is the reason I left Reddit for Lemmy in the first place.

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[–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

Might be an usage rate limit? Try to wait a little and also set Thunderbird to check a bit less frequent.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    The feeds are currently set to check once every 100 minutes (Thunderbird's default setting). Is there a recommended frequency I should be switching to?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    If my rate limit theory is correct, I think it'd depends on how many feeds you're pulling. For a handful few, 100 minutes sounds in my experience. For 1000+, just refreshing might cause timeouts.

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