MrKaplan
@MrKaplan@lemmy.world
- Comment on There is a user that shows up even though they are blocked. 5 days ago:
yay, database inconsistencies.
looks like kbin.earth has a broken setup at some point where their user profiles were using http instead of https urls and that results in random breakage in lemmy:
- Comment on There is a user that shows up even though they are blocked. 5 days ago:
something doesn’t seem to be right there. i can reproduce it with this comment but not with other comments they created. also, the comment doesn’t show up on their profile.
- Comment on How can i remove MIA mods? 1 week ago:
probably. the check for higher modes was changed for 0.19.6 in github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4860, but before that it seems like all mods could remove other mods.
- Comment on How can i remove MIA mods? 1 week ago:
I’ve removed both other mods now
- Comment on How can i remove MIA mods? 1 week ago:
they can, but only those that were appointed after them
- Comment on was made a moderator of community without asking and against my preferenc 1 week ago:
internal team discussion relating to that request. searching by trump was not really an option, but searching for the username did bring it up.
- Comment on was made a moderator of community without asking and against my preferenc 1 week ago:
you requested this here: midwest.social/comment/12017524
you can leave the mod team by using the “Leave mod team” button on the community page
- Comment on Request to moderate c/television 1 week ago:
done
- Comment on old.lemmy.world no longer works without javascript, defeating its purpose 2 weeks ago:
Would you say the old “mlmym” design is more attractive than the new design?
anything that is plain html and doesn’t need js is more attractive for crawlers than things that aren’t plain html.
historical comparison
this doesn’t provide much historical context, it’s just for the last 7 days
Are you saying most of the blue requests are bots?
one way or another, yes. we definitely don’t have that many legitimate users trying to access it and then stopping when they get a cloudflare challenge.
Can you estimate how much it would cost to serve all the bot requests
currently no. this was a quick fix implemented when it got to the point that we couldn’t handle the traffic anymore and lemmy.world was getting outages from the load caused by these criminals. the amount of crawler traffic we see also gets spikes here and there, so what might be enough today might not be enough tomorrow. they just don’t care about anything but themselves.
- Comment on old.lemmy.world no longer works without javascript, defeating its purpose 2 weeks ago:
we’ll have to see. when you’re logged in you’ll have that cookie anyway.
due to the structure of the page it’s a very attractive crawler target for those that don’t care about robots.txt and pretend they’re real browsers. they’re hitting it from a range of different countries that even our initial attempts of limiting the challenge to certain countries was not useful.
even after implementing this challenge we’re still getting lots of requests on this domain that all fail the challenge, 42k challenges issued within the last 24h and only 371 (0.89%) solved.
mlmym also doesn’t seem to be that efficient with its api call usage per page load, so it would likely also need some investigation there if that can be optimized to reduce the server load from mlmym pages compared to other clients.
criminal ai crawler operators are killing the (public) js-free web.
- Comment on old.lemmy.world no longer works without javascript, defeating its purpose 2 weeks ago:
if you set a cookie with the name
jwtit’ll bypass the challenge. this is currently needed due to ddos by criminal ai crawler operators - Comment on LW will send me PMs about mod reports, but the mod report inbox is ALWAYS EMPTY 3 weeks ago:
reports don’t federate in all cases.
currently, only accounts on the community instance get 100% report coverage, as they are sent only to the reporter’s instance, the reported user’s instance and the community instance currently. afaik this is supposed to get better with lemmy 1.0 eventually, but this is what we have to work with for now. resolving reports on another instance won’t resolve them on LW, unless you remove the associated post/comment. this should however not impact visibility when you do check on your LW account.
- Comment on LW will send me PMs about mod reports, but the mod report inbox is ALWAYS EMPTY 3 weeks ago:
report counts will show next to the shield icon in the top right, to the right of the PM/mention bell icon, if there are any.
there is a small possibility that our logic for sending these messages is incorrect, but you’re the first person i see mentioning this while we’ve had this for a pretty long time already.
- Comment on LW will send me PMs about mod reports, but the mod report inbox is ALWAYS EMPTY 3 weeks ago:
that’s odd, the query for those unresolved reports should be finding the same things you’d see in the reports view on the website or jerboa.
do you have a specific example where you can’t find a report? i can take a look at that and probably find the reports.
you can also both in jerboa and also on lemmy-ui select to show all reports, not just resolved ones, which might help identifying them?
- Comment on Lemmy.world appears to have briefly logged me in as a completely different user (twice)? 1 month ago:
this is now disabled for mlmym
- Comment on Lemmy.world appears to have briefly logged me in as a completely different user (twice)? 1 month ago:
have you ever seen this since we updated to Lemmy 0.19.9+?
- Comment on Unable to Upload Photos Due to Cloudflare Verification 2 months ago:
this should be fixed now, Cloudflare was detecting a potential vbulletin exploit
- Comment on I am not able to find lemmy.world on instance finder what is happening? 2 months ago:
afaik this is not something that we were involved in, but the lemmy devs implemented a threshold to exclude instances with 30% or more monthly active user share.
i don’t mind it, better distribution of users across instances is good.
- Comment on YT preview snippet is in Russian 2 months ago:
seems like youtube is using incorrect geoip mapping.
our server is hosted in finland, but afaik google is running their own geolocation stuff, which i think is less accurate than other geoip databases.
- Comment on Having trouble creating a new community 2 months ago:
ah, that makes sense.
anaustralianphotographersnotesbookis 34 characters and the limit is at 26 currently. - Comment on Is there a way to filter posts based on link source? 2 months ago:
I believe some alternative UIs/mobile apps have this feature but it’s not available in the default Lemmy interface.
- Comment on Having trouble creating a new community 2 months ago:
I believe this was due to rate limits being misconfigured. Should be fixed now.
- Comment on Limit of communities a user can create 2 months ago:
I believe this was due to rate limits being misconfigured. Should be fixed now.
- Comment on 🤔 Does my Lemmy instance support video streaming? 2 months ago:
we’re aware of this issue and already looking into it
- Comment on "Language not supported" error 2 months ago:
the community !linux@sh.itjust.works only allows posts without a language set (aka undefined).
this is a community setting.
- Comment on What is up with the changes to LW image caching? 2 months ago:
i don’t think you have any understanding of what ech is.
regardless, we didn’t do any changes to images today.
there was an issue with image uploads, that should be fixed now.
- Comment on What is up with the changes to LW image caching? 2 months ago:
can you please be more specific and provide an example showing what you’re referring to?
- Comment on "@ Mentions" circumvent blocks 2 months ago:
this will be fixed by the upcoming lemmy update iirc
- Comment on Another user unable to verify email 3 months ago:
at this point i don’t know what people are even talking about, anyone signing up since saturday should get an email if their account was denied.
it’s also impressive how many people can’t follow simple instructions.
- Comment on Another user unable to verify email 3 months ago:
reddit blocks data center IPs, therefore fetching the page title automatically doesn’t work
