[Fixed] Comments temporarily broken, being worked on
There was another attack going on (as you might have noticed). We’re working on a fix. In the meantime, we’ve blocked the listing of comments, so we at least aren’t down, but it did break comments.
Hope to have a fix in the next hour. Stay tuned!
Update OK we’ve implemented a fix, again many thanks to @sunaurus for his assistance. This will prevent the outages we’ve seen last couple of days. Let’s see what they will come up with next…
I know this probably isn’t the right place to post this but I’m not sure where the right place is. I haven’t been able to sort comments by old for over a week. Is this a server wide issue or just a me issue? Any advice about how to tell or where I should ask this question is appreciated.
Good for you. :D Sadly, it’s the same for me as for AlmightySnoo: Yesterday evening it worked for me, now it doesn’t. And when it worked “Show context” didn’t link to the parent comment, just to itself.
Seems to work fine on a.lemmy.world so I gonna use that for now.
I added some self-awareness of concurrency to the Lemmy API Rust logic: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3805/files - this should allow a more standard in-band response to concurrency slow-response server overloads. Keywords (‘woodstocksnoopy’ as watchdog, and even more alarming keyworld to find in your logs: ‘SITE_OVERLOAD’) were added to the logging to make it explicit when this is happening.
The attack today was wild, someone kept hammering lemmy.world for like 4~5 hours straight. Where do the attacks come from? Maybe also report to law enforcement? (even though practically speaking the chances that they are going to do something about it are very slim)
Hexbear started making a big deal out of the defederation by lemmy.world today on their instance and it’s possible that their script kiddies might have felt the need to retaliate.
For real… especially since the “problems with comments” are really convenient for the Mods who seem to be censoring the opposition they are getting to the hexbear defederation left & right - my absolutely civil disagreements were just deleted.
Really ramped up after the alt-right extremists on exploding heads were defederated from. There was also turmoil yesterday with the announcement that lemmy.world won’t federate with hexbear, and a lot of the users of that instance employ some shady tactics to influence and astroturf. Or it could just be some dumb troll. Who knows?..
Wouldn’t surprise me honestly, but these have been going on since before the hexbear announcement. I would say it’s rather convenient timing, but in reality these attacks have been very frequent so it is likely a coincidence. I’d wager more on the alt-right neonazis from exploding heads being the responsible party.
I’d wager more on the alt-right neonazis from exploding heads being the responsible party.
Putin has both the far-right and pseudo-communists in his pocket to be part of his evangelization troll army. There’s no much difference between the camps, just the coat they wear.
The comments still seem to be generating, so I’m able to see them. Great work on your instance @ruud, you’re handling your tenure as Lemmy’s largest instance extremely well!
I don’t think anyone is disagreeing that it’s the admins’ right to block hexbear, I was just pointing out that may have led to this attack. Only speculation though
It’s almost like people so online as to be proud to call themselves “tankies” (yet whine when people call them that) were literally planning to brigade and shit post.
I’m pretty damn left wing, but these people consider listening to podcasts and taking over the mod teams of subreddits to be revolutionary praxis.
The OP has a kbin account, which is something akin to Lemmy. But they can comment here because both kbin and lemmy are a part of the fediverse and therefore are interoperable.
But within lemmy itself, you can also have accounts on different instances too! E.g. my account is on lemm.ee, while yours is on lemmy.world. Both servers are a part of Lemmy, but act separately, and are interoperable!
Think of it like email.
Kbin is like gmail.com, lemmy is like outlook.com. Users on gmail can send and receive emails from outlook, and vice versa.
Now think of lemm.ee as outlook.co.uk, and lemmy.world as outlook.co.ca.
To add to that, there’s federated twitter-like apps such as mastadon, they can comment and post on Lemmy too. Same with kbin but kbin integrates the microblogging fully,
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