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Main account is https://piefed.social/u/andrew_s

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  • Well, there’s good news and bad news.

    The good news is that Lemmy is now surrounding your spoilers with the expected Details and Summary tags, and moving the HR means PieFed is able to interpret the Markdown for both spoilers.

    The bad news:
    It turns out KBIN doesn’t understand Details/Summary tags (even though a browser on it own does, so that’s KBIN’s problem).
    Neither PieFed, or KBIN, or MS Edge looking at raw HTML can properly deal with a list that starts at ‘0’.
    Lemmy is no longer putting List tags around anything inside the spoilers. (so this post now looks worse on KBIN. Sorry about that KBIN users)


  • Firstly, sorry for any potential derailment. This is a comment about the Markdown used in your post (I wouldn’t normally mention it, but consider it fair game since this is a ‘Fediverse’ community).
    The spec for lemmy’s spoiler format is colon-colon-colon-space-spoiler. If you miss out the space, then whilst other Lemmy instances can reconstitute the Markdown to see this post as intended, Lemmy itself doesn’t generate the correct HTML when sending it out over ActivityPub. This means that other Fediverse apps that just look at the HTML (e.g. Mastodon, KBIN) can’t render it properly.
    Screenshot from kbin:

    Also, if you add a horizontal rule without a blank line above it, Markdown generally interprets this as meaning that you want the text above it to be a heading. So anything that doesn’t have the full force of Lemmy’s Markdown processor that is currently trying to re-make the HTML from Markdown now has to deal with the ending triple colons having ‘h2’ tags around it.
    Screenshot from piefed:

    (apologies again for being off-topic)









  • A bug report for software I don’t run, and so can’t reproduce would be closed anyway. I think ‘steps to reproduce’ is pretty much the first line in a bug report.

    If I ran a server that used someone else’s software to allow users to download a file, and someone told me that every 2nd byte needed to be discarded, I like to think I’d investigate and contact the software vendors if required. I wouldn’t tell the user that it’s something they should be doing. I feel like I’m the user in this scenario.



  • They’ll all POST requests. I trimmed it out of the log for space, but the first 6 requests on the video looked like (nginx shows the data amount for GET, but not POST):

    ip.address - - [07/Apr/2024:23:18:44 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.world"
    ip.address- - [07/Apr/2024:23:18:44 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.world"
    ip.address - - [07/Apr/2024:23:19:14 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.world"
    ip.address - - [07/Apr/2024:23:19:14 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.world"
    ip.address - - [07/Apr/2024:23:19:44 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.world"
    ip.address - - [07/Apr/2024:23:19:44 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.world"
    

    If I was running Lemmy, every second line would say 400, from it rejecting it as a duplicate. In terms of bandwidth, every line represents a full JSON, so I guess it’s about 2K minimum for the standard cruft, plus however much for the actual contents of comment (the comment replying to this would’ve been 8K)

    My server just took the requests and dumped the bodies out to a file, and then a script was outputting the object.id, object.type and object.actor into /tmp/demo.txt (which is another confirmation that they were POST requests, of course)


  • I can’t re-produce anything, because I don’t run Lemmy on my server. It’s possible to infer that’s it’s related to the software (because LW didn’t do this when it was on 0.18.5). However, it’s not something that, for example, lemmy.ml does. An admin on LW matrix chat suggested that it’s likely a combination of instance configuration and software changes, but a bug report from me (who has no idea how LW is set up) wouldn’t be much use.

    I’d gently suggest that, if LW admins think it’s a configuration problem, they should talk to other Lemmy admins, and if they think Lemmy itself plays a role, they should talk to the devs. I could be wrong, but this has been happening for a while now, and I don’t get the sense that anyone is talking to anyone about it.





  • (same person on different account, just so I can preview what the table will look like)

    Hmmm. This might not help you much. That community was launched on 2024-01-22, with a page full of posts, so by the time the crawler picked up on it, it was already at 501 subs, 23 posts.
    It lost 15 posts on 2024-02-12 (Stamets?).
    There’s data missing from 2024-02-26 - 2024-03-01 (this data is from the bot at !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl; I think those days are missing because I changed it from measuring Active Users Month (AUM) to Active Users Week (AUW)).
    In terms of active users, the jump on 2024-03-04 is due to lemmy.world ‘upgrading’ to 0.19.3.

    date subs aum posts
    2024-01-23 501 71 23
    2024-01-24 601 103 27
    2024-01-25 643 125 32
    2024-01-26 663 130 33
    2024-01-27 668 130 33
    2024-01-28 668 130 33
    2024-01-29 670 130 33
    2024-01-30 670 130 33
    2024-01-31 670 130 33
    2024-02-01 670 130 33
    2024-02-02 670 130 33
    2024-02-03 672 130 33
    2024-02-04 672 130 33
    2024-02-05 672 130 33
    2024-02-06 672 130 33
    2024-02-07 673 140 34
    2024-02-08 678 144 35
    2024-02-09 681 150 36
    2024-02-10 681 150 36
    2024-02-11 698 155 38
    2024-02-12 703 156 23
    2024-02-13 703 156 23
    2024-02-14 711 160 24
    2024-02-15 711 160 24
    2024-02-16 711 160 24
    2024-02-17 713 160 24
    2024-02-18 713 160 24
    2024-02-19 714 160 24
    2024-02-20 715 160 24
    2024-02-21 715 160 24
    2024-02-22 715 160 24
    2024-02-23 715 119 24
    2024-02-24 715 77 24
    2024-02-25 716 48 24

    [data missing]

    date subs auw posts
    2024-03-02 718 2 25
    2024-03-03 722 2 25
    2024-03-04 726 129 26
    2024-03-05 732 200 27
    2024-03-06 748 397 29
    2024-03-07 754 437 30
    2024-03-08 755 453 31
    2024-03-09 756 455 31
    2024-03-10 770 576 33
    2024-03-11 779 631 34
    2024-03-12 782 651 35
    2024-03-13 785 583 36
    2024-03-14 787 473 36
    2024-03-15 797 476 37
    2024-03-16 802 493 39
    2024-03-17 807 542 40
    2024-03-18 812 650 41
    2024-03-19 815 431 42
    2024-03-20 817 400 43
    2024-03-21 819 421 44
    2024-03-22 819 437 44
    2024-03-23 822 484 46
    2024-03-24 829 533 47
    2024-03-25 831 384 48
    2024-03-26 833 395 49
    2024-03-27 837 431 50
    2024-03-28 840 462 51
    2024-03-29 849 416 52
    2024-03-30 851 390 53
    2024-03-31 854 414 53
    2024-04-01 861 466 56
    2024-04-02 865 560 57
    2024-04-03 868 473 58

  • I know for sure that Lemmy won’t, it’s likely the same for Mastodon.

    I was wrong about not being able to WebFinger your account - I still had the @ at the beginning when I trying. Doing it properly:

    curl --header 'accept: application/json' https://mostr.pub/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:910af9070dfd6beee63f0d4aaac354b5da164d6bb23c9c876cdf524c7204e66d@mostr.pub | jq .
    

    gets the right response.

    However, I’m logged into lemmy.world and it still couldn’t get your account. At a guess, it’s because there’s a 20 character limit on usernames.


  • Lemmy instances won’t search outside of their own databases if you’re not logged in.

    But if you are, what it does can be recreated on a command-line by doing:
    curl --header 'accept: application/json' https://nerdica.net/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:nate0@nerdica.net | jq .

    This shows that your profile is at https://nerdica.net/profile/nate0. Lemmy puts all users at a /u/, but using webfinger means that other fediverse accounts don’t have to follow the same structure. For lemmy.world, you’re at https://lemmy.world/u/nate0@nerdica.net in the same way that a mastodon user is at e.g https://lemmy.world/u/MrLovenstein@mastodon.social.

    edit: However if you webfinger your mostr.pub account, you get: {"error":"Invalid host"} so any ActivityPub instances will only ever be able to find you if you’ve interacted with them in some way to get a database entry. Edit: also, I tried to do this again, thought I’d try the npub1 account as well, but got Gateway Timeouts, so there’s a bit of jankiness going on too.