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.

For the past week, I was receiving error messages in the Sync app that I was not logged in to lemmy.sdf.org, even though it appeared that I was. I got tired of the error messages in Sync, so I logged out. Now when I try to log back in to lemmy.sdf.org in the Sync app, I get an error message. I know it's not a password issue, since I logged out and logged back in to lemmy.sdf.org via a browser with the same password. Not sure if this is a Sync issue or a lemmy.sdf.org issue. Anyone know what's going on and have a fix? Thank you.

Thanks for all the hard work etc.

Like many other users I am now unable to use my SDF account with my Lemmy apps. As some commenters here have pointed out this seems to be due to SDF upgrading server to version 0.19 which isn’t ready and breaks app support- see

• https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/7339022?scrollToComments=true
• https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/7331652?scrollToComments=true

Please could we rollback to the previous working version for general/production use pending a working upgraded version

Thanks!

Edit: For everyone recommending to use Voyager, thanks, but I thought Lemmy was meant to be about federation. Perhaps others will switch but personally I am not interested in jumping through hoops moving my settings across because of an inappropriate version change.

I recently noticed my app (liftoff) stopped working and also glitchy behavior from the site after the sudden upgrade to 0.19, is there any explanation or reason for the sudden upgrade, especially considering that 0.19 isn't exactly production ready (no official release from the devs).

I am logged in. The All/Local/Subscribed sections are all the same, and navigating to the subscriptions page says "There doesn't seem to be anything here."

Tried clearing cookies.

The regular lemmy.sdf.org page seems to work correctly.

I don't see my comments or DMs (wrote a DM to a second account) on any other instance, is there a problem with outgoing traffic?

I've been getting old posts for ~24h or more. Today, I see posts from the weekend when I refresh the feed. Is this an SDF issue or a Lemmy issue? Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this question.

I just noticed (and made a post on BBOARD under REQUESTS) that Jekyll doesn't seem to be available anymore. It seemed as of a few years ago that was the popular choice for hosting a blog on SDF.

But maybe there are better solutions these days?

I don't want to do some sort of Wordpress or any sort of database-backed thing. I just want a lightweight, static generator of some sort, that can take Markdown and update a bunch of HTML files, maintaining the site structure, index files, etc. etc.

Back in the day I used Blosxom for this, but it got hard to keep running (at least for me, not being very into Perl), so I migrated everything over to Jekyll... but it's never really been the lightweight, easy-to-use solution that I hoped it would be.

Anyone have thoughts or suggestions?

Are there any rules for the SDF instance? Or can you just post and say whatever you want, as long as it isn't illegal?

Also, is the server for this instance located in the US or EU?

Edit: I found it, apparently the list isn't ordered line-by-line, and sdfpubnix was just crammed beside another community name!

I'm not sure if that's a bug or not. I'm joined to the community, but for some reason it doesn't show up in the list with the other ones. Has this happened for anyone else?

To get here I currently click on @SDF in the "about us" sidebar, and then click sdfpubnix in that account's moderated communities list...

Hi,

When posting animated images, I see that the file is converted into .webm, but no thumbnail is generated. I'm curious if that's just me, or the case for others, or intentional.

I had a notification on the bell icon, and when clicking to open context for the item it returns a server error. Just FYI for the SDF crew.

Why it is placed behind the subscribed menu?

Who should I report to?