Andrew

Oh. I subscribed to this post because I hoped someone would be able to give an answer too.

It’s been a day, so before I forget and on the basis that some answer is better than none at all, I’ll have a crack:

400 Bad Request isn’t much to worry about, it doesn’t mean anything is malfunctioning and it can happen for a gazillion reasons. One is you’ve joined a new community and someone Likes a comment you don’t have (particularly if it’s nested in other comments you also don’t have). Another is if someone Likes a post or comment by a user on an instance that you’ve defederated from (your instance is defed’d from lemmygrad and hexbear whereas lemmy.ml isn’t)

As for 499, that seems to be a client issue, and that client mostly seems to be beehaw, who are stuck on an old Lemmy version and being increasingly wonky (in the other direction, they often reply in HTML rather than JSON and randomly decide that their communities’ inboxes don’t exist, so I wouldn’t worry about stuff from them either)

Seems like ‘posts’ works okay, but it’s ‘comments’ that don’t (and overview is a mix of both).

API call to see posts:
curl --request GET --url 'https://lemmy.world/api/v3/user?username=beebarfbadger&sort=TopDay&page=1&limit=1' --header 'accept: application/json' | jq .posts[].post.published = 2024-09-26T15:35:33.998368Z (today’s top post is today)

API call to see comments:
curl --request GET --url 'https://lemmy.world/api/v3/user?username=beebarfbadger&sort=TopHour&page=1&limit=1' --header 'accept: application/json' | jq .comments[].comment.published = 2024-03-03T05:09:45.255807Z (this hour’s top comment was in March)

They probably know about it, but if not it’s probably a good idea to report the bug here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

I don’t think that would be possible. The API is only sending “post_id” and “score” for votes, so the backend has no info on what feed a user used to send it. An instance could modify their official frontend to hide the ability to downvote from Local and All but they couldn’t do anything about people using different frontends (e.g. all the various phone apps)

I think lemmynsfw stopped people who weren’t subscribed to a community from voting in it (because their communities for gay people were getting a lot of downvotes from All). If that’s what you mean. I think it was a hack rather than a setting though (my info might be out of date)

Very late reply - the ‘app’ at the moment is just a PWA, so it requires a manual check

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textiles/needlecraft combo projects: !bistitchual@piefed.social

Trailers: !gametrailers@lemmy.wtf

Your instance rejects Follow requests from instances not on your ‘Allow list’, which is a pretty small list.

Edit: the list has since been expanded.

It depends. It seems like Lemmy batches up its activity to send to remote instances - so, per instance, it sleeps for a bit, then sends what it has. If both a Create and an Update are in the same batch, Lemmy just sends the Update. If they don’t happen to be in the same batch though, it sends both activities.

(this is outsider observation, not insider knowledge)

This is a great list. Note, though, that lemmyverse.net (and by extension, !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl) are less useful at the current moment than before because lemmyverse needs an update before it can crawl the increasing numbers of instances on 0.19.4 or above.

That’s kinda funny, in a way - unsophisticated prevention for an unsophisticated attack.

Everyone trying to use the Internet normally suffers due to this kind of stuff.

You’re right about the cause: Lemmy’s front-end isn’t giving its backend enough time to do everything it needs to do for an unfamiliar commentary.

It works better if you copy / paste the link into Search. MBin effectively redirects all these links to its Search anyway, so maybe that’s an option.

lemm.ee have upp’d to 0.19.4, and presumably turned on the Image Proxying thing - this is what I get for: https://lemm.ee/post/34040618

{"error":"unknown","message":"Request error: error sending request for url ([http://127.0.0.1:8080/image/original?proxy=https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/be3c/live/2a45fdb0-20ee-11ef-a3ab-e73c00cc3104.jpg)](http://127.0.0.1:8080/image/original?proxy=https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/be3c/live/2a45fdb0-20ee-11ef-a3ab-e73c00cc3104.jpg)): operation timed out"}

I’ve had that problem too (messing around with test instances) - for anyone else wondering why: it’s because the RSA keypair for me@mydomain has changed, and remote instances fail to validate message headers signed with the new private key, because they’re still using their copy of an old public key.

It seems to be quite a lot for the server it’s hosted on though (which is not the snappiest). There are, of course, still areas in the world where - for one reason or another - people still are effectively on dial-up speed-wise.

Buster should turn their attention to the size of the images uploaded to servers like this: 1.1M is arguably overkill for this one.

This isn’t really my area, but I’ll have a crack. From what I understand, Lemmy uses the ‘meta og:image’ tag to grab a thumbnail. Inspecting your site, I can see that that tag is in the html head. However, if you just ‘curl’ the URL, then it isn’t in the results. Using ‘curl’ for URLs from sites that are known to work in terms of generating thumbnails (theguardian and bbc), the tag is visible in the result.

This suggests that your site is using further scripting on page load to provide the meta tags, whereas perhaps Lemmy can only get them if they are provided immediately. There are other sites (like Reuters), who use additional scripting, that Lemmy is unable to get thumbnails for also (e.g. https://lemmy.world/post/16203031)

Re: sorting posts not working - I don’t know. It looks like you’ve deleted the post you made about ‘sorting of posts not aligned’

Re: communities not updated - I found your GIF hard to follow, but there’s a straight-forward difference between the post list you’re seeing on lemm.ee and on programming.dev, in that the missing posts are all tagged ‘English’. (If you looked at lemm.ee when you’re logged out, you’d see the same list as on programming.dev).
I assume you’ve fixed it now, since this post is in English, but to recreate what lemmy-ui is doing:

#!/bin/bash

show_post=true
lang_id_undefined="0"
lang_id_english="37"

for page in {1..17}
do
  curl --silent "https://lemm.ee/api/v3/post/list?community_id=8024&page=$page&limit=50" |
  jq -rc '.posts[] | .post.language_id, .post.name' |
  while read line
  do
    if [ "$line" == "$lang_id_english" ]; then show_post=false; continue; fi
    if [ "$line" == "$lang_id_undefined" ]; then show_post=true; continue; fi
    if $show_post; then echo $line; fi
  done
  page=page+1
done

There was a great windows app called ‘dvdshrink’ that let you rip commercial DVDs onto blank DVDs (shrinking them if necessary). It got taken down with a Cease & Desist, but the MPAA or whoever didn’t worry about who took the domain. For a long time, the site was just filled with ads instead - now it’s a bit more sophisticated: no real link to download the software, but lots of genuine-seeming donation requests.

The fake site is at the first search result for that software (edit: it’s probably best not to link directly to it)