I had forgotten about SDF but seeing SDF instance on Lemmy caught my attention. I used to use SDF for a while about 10 years ago and now it would be interesting to see if I have left anything interesting there.

I found my notes from ten years ago so I know what my username was. I don't remember my password though. I tried to log in but to no avail. Is there any way to know whether my account still exists? Do accounts get removed if they're not used for long periods of time?

Exciting for me that the community is actually getting some visitors.

This is my first time being a moderator for a community, so would be happy to receive any tips!

Did someone forget to plug in the certbot?

```<> TACKER: membership (SDF Membership) SUBJECT: .. lemmy.sdf.org and old.lemmy.sdf.org are down DATE: 29-May-24 14:17:40 HOST: mx

there looks to be a possible hardware issue with one of the nodes that hosts lemmy.sdf.org. a spare is being staged to take on the additional load. ```

Source: REQUESTS bulletin board on SDF public access UNIX system

I just got an e-mail that my account has been registered, 9 months after I signed up.

Never heard of any of this before but it seems like a dope community. I just donated through paypal to validate. I'm excited to try stuff out. I tried to look at the bboard and I am confused but I will learn. never used irc either but I'm curious. This all seems so cool

Anyone else notice that lemmy.world federation seems to be broken? All my communities with them (and probably more instances) appear to be devoid of activity.

:(

From bboard ANNOUNCE BBOARD: ```<.> TACKER: membership (SDF Membership) SUBJECT: network outage in second cabinet DATE: 16-Apr-24 01:22:19 HOST: mx

It looks that we're experience a network outage to our second cabinet this evening. A ticket has been opened to address the issue.

This affects ryo.sdf.org, lemmy.sdf.org and ma.sdf.org

Thank you for your patience.

<ANNOUNCE.1.0/2>(87)[ <ENTER> follow thread, (R)EPLY, (F)LAG or (Q)UIT ]

TACKER: membership (SDF Membership) SUBJECT: .. network outage in second cabinet DATE: 16-Apr-24 01:59:59 HOST: mx

Confirmed that this is only a network outage to the second cabinet and is currently being worked on by our network service provider. Hopefully it will be resolved soon. Thank you for your patience.

<ANNOUNCE.1.1/2>(6)[ <ENTER> follow thread, (R)EPLY, (F)LAG or (Q)UIT ]

TACKER: membership (SDF Membership) SUBJECT: .. network outage in second cabinet DATE: 16-Apr-24 20:19:30 HOST: mx

our network provider has reassigned our uplink port for the second cabinet and the hosts are once against accessible.

(it even blinks! What!? Why?)

<ANNOUNCE.1> Command: ```

Just relaying it here.

<sup>Note: I am not affiliated with SDF</sup>

Hi,

I have a tiny newsfeed community here on SDF. We got a spam comment by another user registered on the instance. Looking at the account, all it does is link spam. Is there a process to flagging the account for moderation at the instance level, rather than flagging to block in individual communities?

Account in question: https://lemmy.sdf.org/u/dordle12

If so, is there any plan to remedy that?

Thanks for putting it up btw I love it

From my nginx access log:

your.ip.address - - [21/Feb/2024:06:50:09 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.sdf.org" your.ip.address - - [21/Feb/2024:06:50:09 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.sdf.org" your.ip.address - - [21/Feb/2024:06:50:09 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.sdf.org" your.ip.address - - [21/Feb/2024:06:50:09 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.sdf.org"

2 of the entries are "https://lemmy.sdf.org/activities/like/88bc5b6d-f11f-4245-90aa-908e43befe97" being sent twice, the other two are "https://lemmy.sdf.org/activities/like/437327e5-a262-46bc-8ce7-1c2c5bd440b3" being sent twice

I've reported this problem to other affected servers that I've seen: the lemmy.ca post suggests the problem was something to do with running multiple containers with the same index number; the endlesstalk.org post suggests that re-starting the backend containers is a fix (their answers will likely more sense to you than to me, as I don't run lemmy).

Thanks!

Example: On here vs. on Lemmit itself.

I don't know if this is our end or theirs, but nobody seems to have commented about it on their meta community, which makes me think it's not broken for users on bigger instances.

I created this post on [email protected]: if you go directly to the instance, it shows twice as many comments, and a lot more upvotes than on the SDF view.

It seems that the server was broken for more then 24 hours and I wasn't sure who to contact. So, who do we ask to reboot or fix the instance if its down?

fyi @[email protected]

Hello! I'm making changes to a web app that involves some aria classes, and I read the docs about how they work, but I'm not real confident in my ability to construct them into something that produces a well-usable experience for someone who's using the app. Is there a good way to get direct feedback from someone who uses a screenreader, or otherwise get some evaluation on whether what I've fumbled together is actually functioning well?

The url scheme looks like this:

https://INSTANCE.TLD/feeds/c/COMMUNITY.xml

for example:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/feeds/c/sdfpubnix.xml

!

It seems like comments show up immediately now. At least on Lemmy.world

Federation is broken.

It's been broken for days - and that's not to say for months, because I charitably include the few hours it worked again lately for some reason.

I don't know if other instances are that thoroughly broken, because the rest of Lemmy seems to be chugging along just fine. It's just us poor SDF user suckers.

And no-one gives a rat's ass.

Truly pathetic...

It appears that comments stopped federating to other instances again sometime yesterday morning (January 5th, before 8AM EST). I can verify that the issue is affecting outgoing comments to multiple different instances (incl. lemmy.ml & lemmy.world) and that it remains ongoing as of the time of writing (e.g.: compare this remote post vs. SDF's copy, my comment is missing). I'll do the honors and ping @[email protected] here and now so you guys don't have to.

In the meantime, since we're all marooned here anyway: how's everyone's weekend been going so far? Any exciting plans?

I really feel a strong sense of community on Lemmy. Just wanted to share some good cheer on this local board. Remember when the internet didn't completely suck? It feels good being here. Best to you all.

@[email protected] or whomever is responsible, thanks for updating the software to 0.19.1 (rc). Silly me I thought it was unlikely to happen over Christmas.

Really appreciate you taking the time over the holiday to update and hopefully resolve the issues we've been seeing for a while.

Let the comments flow!

So I'm noticing that I don't seem to get any engagement when I'm posting replies to posts generated on other instances. Just now I thought I'd go directly to a thread on lemmy.world to see if my comment was showing there but it isn't. Other non lemmy.world users are showing up.

Does anybody else notice this or is it just me?

Example: https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/6595136 My comment

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/6752604 Who I replied to

https://lemmy.world/comment/6161325 Where the thread originally was posted

Edit: the issue appears to have resolved

What is SDF's opinion on pre-emptive deferation with Threads?

I know SDF Chatter hasn't defedded with any instance, but there is a serious risk of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish if we federate with Threads.

I noticed my posts on Lemmy.world stopped showing up to my account from that instance, and looking back, it seems like nothing I've posted for the last 4 days has federated.

Hi all!

I'm relatively new to the SDF in any meaningful sense.

I think I'd signed up for a shell account a year ago or so but didn't use it much.

A few months back I started to readlize how much more the SDF has to offer - an incredible community blending technology, art, and social aspects.

I find this incredibly inspiring.

One thing I've noticed is a ton of reports coming in that this or that doesn't work, and some sour grapes from folks frustrated that they're not seeing the action they'd like on the part of the maintainers.

Which leaves me wondering, who are the maintainers, and might there be mechanisms so that SDF members can pitch in and help keep the software ecosystem we maintain for members more healthy?

I know there's a ton of up front effort required to, say, train up a new maintainer for any given complex piece of server side software, but many hands make light work, and perhaps there are things "around the edges" that could help and give newer folks an opportunity to earn trust and train to be the co-maintainers of the future?

Ideas are like elbows and I know everyone has one, I'm just wondering if I can help, and given the general tech level required to even participate in SDF, wondering if others might be able to help as well.

Thanks for listening! -Chris feoh@SDF and everywhere else :)

I am sorry for posting about this, since it's a recurring issue, but I can't do anything else about it.

Edit: This appears to have been fixed already with another backend update. Leaving the post below as-is.

Current version in the footer: UI: 0.19.0-rc.11 BE: 0.19.0-rc.10

Starting today, most image thumbnails and pictrs links will not load. I tried clearing cookies and I tried in three different browser engines (Firefox, Chromium, Safari).

If I try to open one of the image URLs directly in my browser, it shows {"error":"auth_cookie_insecure"}.

Interestingly, images will load correctly if I am NOT logged in. Why are the pictrs URLs even checking cookies when they do not require auth? Is that new behavior in this version of Lemmy?

Here is an example post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/8482278

And an example direct image URL from that post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/c8556f4f-d33c-4cac-86f3-975726ea69ec.png

I am interested to know if others are seeing the same issue. I have not exhaustively tested different cookies settings in my browsers, so it's possible some anti-tracking privacy settings are interfering with this behavior.

Worth noting is that the Eternity app on my phone continues to work. I did not even need to log out and back in today, like I did in my browsers.

Yeah like a smiling computer or smth. Would be cool eh?

For example this post visible from lemmy.sdf.org is nowhere to be seen on the corresponding thread on lemmy.ml.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/5813441

Not sure when exactly it started, but the MLMYM instance here seems to be "read only", for lack of a better term. Attempts to comment, post, or even vote on content do not work. I can still log in and out normally, still view subscribed content, but nothing else works. Not sure what's going on.

I asked admin of my instance few minutes ago and didn't get reply yet, but it seems your instance(mastodon.sdf.org) blocks pone.social.

EDIT: my instance isn't blocking mastodon.sdf.org

It seems that for at most the past 2 days the federation is partially broken.

Comments, posts, votes and DMs load from other instances, but not the other way around.