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Welcome to our virtual third place, The Café.

Come on in and make a new human connection over a cup of coffee (or Teh Tarik). This is a casual community, do whatever you want, share your oyen pics, your frustrations, and even organize a weekend picnic with the community. The world is your oyster.

Rules are simple, be kind and civil with each other. As with any other café, rude patrons will be kicked out.

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/c/café daily chat thread for 12 July 2023 (monyet.cc)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I just joined Lemmy like yesterday due to trying to move away from reddit.

Today, I've been experimenting around with the fediverse trying to figure out the UI and all. But this weird hack thing that is happening on at least lemmy.world makes it all a bit confusing 🤔

For example, when I am signed in and check my feed in "new" I only see posts from 2 days ago, even though it seems like new content is still being posted.

Similarly this Cafe post from today has 0 comments even though yesterdays had like 50. Are there just not many people on Lemmy, or is this some weird issue I'm having?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find that between yesterday and today, a sign out and signing back in solved most of the glitches I'm seeing (subscriptions not populated or appearing, post updates, latest posts, etc). I forsee doing this periodically for the forseable future of using Lemmy, regardless of home instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

if it is any consolation, I beg to differ. it has been a crazy week for lemmy. first, version 0.18.1 came out which had massive improvements, two of them that could be the cause of needing to logout/clear cache are:

fixing the cookie path (if you've ever encountered the logout button not working, this was the fix)
changing the path of some .js files (this required everyone to refresh their browser so they could request them from the new path)

then a few days after 0.18.1 was released, lemmy had that xss security issue, and temporary measures had to be taken to secure our instance (sort of like a lockdown):

the admins rotated the signing key for the json web tokens (which automatically logged everybody out, so you had to login again; lots of instances did this)
federation was turned off (which would affect your subscriptions and posts from communities on other instances; I would say fewer instances did what we did to turn federation off completely, some merely blocked the instances that were affected by the hack)

federation only started working again properly about 2-3 hours ago. so that's probably when your subscriptions and posts started getting through.

will we ever need to turn federation off again? probably, but hopefully not soon. anyway, now that the admins have done it once, they know what's involved, so hopefully the next time this happens, federation will only be turned off for a short while instead of around one and a half days.

by the way, if you find any post or comment that didn't properly federate over here, these instructions may help. (the short version is: just like you can search for communities from other instances, you can search for posts and comments (and users) too, you just need to search for their url.)

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