Hello! Admin here at lemdro.id. This is the result of several problems in the default reference nginx config. I am working on resolving this right now and should have it fixed within the next 30 minutes!

Basically, the lemmy backend service for some reason marked every instance we federated with as inactive, which caused it to stop outbound federation with basically everyone. I have a few working theories on why, but not fully sure yet.

TL;DR lemmy bug, required manual database intervention to fix

This was a stressful start to a vacation!

For a more detailed working theory...

I've been doing a lot of infrastructure upgrades lately. Lemdro.id runs on a ton of containerized services that scale horizontally for each part of the stack globally and according to load. It's pretty cool. But my theory is that since the backend schedules inactive checking for 24 hours from when it starts that it simply was being restarted (upgraded) before it had a chance to check activity until it was too late.

theory:

• scheduled task checks instances every 24 hours

• I updated (restarted it) more than every 24 hours

• it never had a chance to run the check

• ???

• failure

This isn't really a great design for inactivity checking and I'll be submitting a pull request to fix it.

nothing wrong with that.

you support the people you watch without having to see ads. also, comes with YT music.

it's a pretty good deal

EULAs are not legally enforceable anyways

nice to have that sort of freedom, since the majority of companies use some Microsoft products

on the other hand, it is REALLY annoying

that would literally defeat the entire purpose of the AUR

source: https://xkcd.com/932/

(for those that want to read the alt-text)

right but unless you sign a contributor licensing agreement when you contribute then the copyright owner can't relicense code you contributed.

so if you contribute to a GPL codebase it's pretty legally perilous to try to unilaterally relicense code that isn't "yours".

this is pretty nebulous territory anyways, but I'd argue it's pretty unethical to relicense to a more restrictive license essentially "taking" the GPL code from contributors

"privacy friendly" and "free cloud storage" are oxymorons. If you aren't paying for a product, you ARE the product

If you support changing the default frontend to Photon, upvote this comment! If you don't support it, downvote this comment!

I feel like Dune was a good outlier to this. It's the only movie I've seen in theater in the last few years and I really enjoyed not having everything explained to me

He drives competitor's cars to understand what they're like. Many automotive CEOs do this. Don't panic

give them the duress password gg

sure! take a look at this issue: https://github.com/...

It is likely yours is fixed if you deployed recently

Freesync yes, HDR soon™

I've gotten an email like this before for lemdro.id. I think it's a generic phishing email since the community links look like email addresses (and actually often are)

It is my opinion that there is only "tension" because you say there is. I do not believe that most people feel that way; it isn't exactly an active war zone. Nevertheless, I respect your decision as moderator of this community, and I'll leave you be in the future. Best of luck!

yeah I don't think I will buy the Pixel 10 unless GrapheneOS supports it

I'm the backend guy at lemdro.id, I started the instance. I don't moderate the !android@lemdro.id community (or any of them... I purely do infrastructure), but I am quite aware of the drama around recent events involving the two android communities.

The intent behind banning all lemdro.id users from applying to be mods feels quite... retaliatory? I'm not sure there is anyone on lemdro.id who would apply, but depriving them the opportunity simply because they are associated with an instance that hosts a community which had another community merge into it?

It is your community, you can of course do what you want. I just wish we could drop the drama, act like adults, and move on. Tired of the vitriol.