There’s a reason recommendations nowadays are to use other instances than LW. Being the largest instance brings some unique situations.
Comment on Lemmy.world appears to have briefly logged me in as a completely different user (twice)?
fallowseed@lemmy.world 1 month agothis reply is deeply concerning.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
MrKaplan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
that has nothing to do with this issue.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Sorry, then I misread your other comment about
just seeing it more frequently due to a larger number of users
Serinus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It happens 10x less often on other instances that have 10x fewer people.
Not that hard to figure out, unless you have an agenda you’re trying to push.
MrKaplan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
we’re not running any modifications that would impact caching and we don’t have any custom caching logic. we’re only caching what lemmy/lemmy-ui return as cacheable, which suggests that the issue is likely in one of those services, however, i couldn’t find it in either one.
it’s also rare enough that it’s extremely difficult to troubleshoot, as we see people report this maybe once or twice every few months but without any useful information that would allow us to look into this further than trying to find bugs in related code just from the general symptom of seemingly invalid cache.
additionally, the impact of this should be fairly low, as, unless this somehow impacts private messages as well, no data would be returned that isn’t already otherwise public. with this seemingly “just” being a caching issue, there is also no risk at impersonating other users.
nonetheless i agree that this should not be happening in the first place, even if it’s rare and the impact appears limited.