After I resolved the federation issue, I had to clean up a few things and so the site may have been unavailable for a bit. I'm done fussing with it and will keep an eye on it to make sure things are working....
I don’t know yet - it’s definitely not expected, so my guess is an unintentional bug in mbin somewhere. I am hoping to find a way run a profiler or something similar to see what it’s doing.
Hi all. As some of you have reported, outbound federation to at least some other instances is broken from fedia.io. At the moment. I don't know why and I don't have any leads as there are no logs or other indications of what is going wrong, but I am working on it.
Thanks. It’s a strange problem that only happens when trying to post directly to a community/magazine that resides on another instance. So this works fine because this community it hosted locally. I think I understand when but hoping to get some clarification.
Not entirely. It looks like the rabbit issue was only impacting one of the queues (“deliver”), though I would have expected that to impact things like microblog too. All I can say with clarity is that the instance was operating in a very unhealthy state.
The queue appears like it’ll take several hours to flush, but it’s working.
Note that even once I get this fixed, there will inevitably be another problem crop up. Posting here is fine, but an email to jerry@infosec.exchange or a ping to @jerry (my mastodon account) would probably be faster (note, when federation breaks here, messages to @jerry wouldn't get through from fedia.io...
for two days, threads posted on fedia.io magazines apparently do not show up on lemmy > this does not only affect the poetry magazine, but also https://fedia.io/m/FloatingIsFun - i guess the same applies to other fedia.io magazines > i have already checked both lemmy.world and infosec.pub: no new threads show up
Do you know whether there are any users on kbin.melroy.org that subscribe to your magazine? If not, that will explain why your post did not show up until you searched for it.
I am not 100% sure. Fedia.io is running on a beast of a server, and so long as it’s working correctly, it should be able to deliver it instantly. But that doesn’t mean that the receiving servers are able to consume and render them that fast.
We made some changes a few minute ago that we hope fixes the problem. There may be some other lingering issues, but I am hoping the voting problem is fixed now. Let me know below if you continue to see that problem.
It's a known issue - I have been working with @melroy for a while now to resolve. I think we now understand what is happening under the hood, but not yet why it is happening.
Outbound federation was indeed broken. I fixed it, but there was a huge backlog the server had to work through, which took about 12 hours to complete. I just checked and everything appears to be working ok. I am going to create some automation that will detect and alert on this (or other issues) happening in the future.
there isn't an inteval per se - I don't yet know why it's not immediate. It's possible that the delay is on the receiving side - the server that fedia.io is quite substantial and unless there is some sort of bug, the processing should happen immediately.
Until I implement a better system to screen out spammers, I will be closing registrations on Fedia.io. That’s not what I want - I’d like for it to be available for legitimate accounts, but the spam is off the hook....
Howdy! Mbin (and lemmy) are very different things. It’s sort of like the difference between Twitter and Reddit. You can sort of interact back and forth, but to get the full experience, you have to either be on a lemmy or mbin (or piefed) instance.
What works for me on both mastodon and Lemmy is a free text question: why do you want to join?
The user enters whatever they like and it goes into a moderation queue. Both lemmy and mastodon send me an email when a new account is ready to review.
I read the response and choose to whether to approve their account. At the moment, spammers are really bad at answering the “why do you want to join” questions.
When trying to register, I fill out a username, email, and password (copy/pasted from a password manager, so no chance of mistyping). I complete the captcha, check the consent box, click register, and... nothing. Page refreshes, but there's no errors displayed or anything. I've tried resetting my password, but I never get an...
I did end up disabling registration due to spam. I can either open them up at a time you’re free to try again or I can manually create an account for you.
Hello everyone. Today, I moved fedia.io behind the Fastly CDN. This should make the site consistently fast for everyone, no matter where you are in the world. It'll also help with bandwidth usage and mitigate DDoS attacks....
Hi all. I've been having some problems keeping fedia.io running - at the moment, either the message workers or the php web server processes are dying after an hour or so and I have to restart everything. I have been working with the mbin team and installed some updates that we hoped would fix the problems, but no luck. I am...
This annoys me about the fediverse - people take a chance on coming here and then repeatedly get left in the dark when their instance is shut down. That's why I was so very happy when you and others helped me get fedia.io back to healthy.
Most interesting: the problem had only been happening on MS Edge on my laptop. I have been using safari on my phone without issue. Just a bit ago, i refreshed the page and now every time I revisit the site, I have to log back in, just like on Edge. It’s like the old session expired and the new ones aren’t sticking. I’ll try FF on my phone.
Note: even in the time I started typing this reply to when I hit the “add comment” button, I got logged out
I have so many errors in prod.log that it's hard to tell for certain, but when I try to filter out those that are associated with failed federation events, that seems to be when I'm left with. I am trying again to see if I can confirm
ok - I just had it happen again while looking at logs. interestingly, there was NOT a CSRF log when that happened. There were a bunch of other errors, but enough that I could look through all of them and see that they were all related to activitypub issues - signaturevalidator and the like
it's hard to make a blanket statement, because it depends on the details of the application. CSRF attacks are definitely real and common, but using csrf tokens isn't critical in every application. For example, I think we have CORS headers enabled, I don't think we have functionality that allows embedded iframes, but we do allow links - if we have administrative functions that can be triggered solely with GET parameters, then someone could trick an administrator into doing something that caused damage by clicking on a link in a post. The only one that would obviously work that I can see is "logout", which would be annoying, but not world ending, and would work for everyone, not just administrators.
Fedia.io should be stable now (fedia.io)
After I resolved the federation issue, I had to clean up a few things and so the site may have been unavailable for a bit. I'm done fussing with it and will keep an eye on it to make sure things are working....
Good news: the federation problem on fedia.io, as well as the problem with getting an error 500 when submitting a thread, have been solved. (fedia.io)
Fedia.io is sort of like she Ship of Theseus right now - I literally replaced nearly everything trying to get it back working....
Outbound federation is broken on fedia.io (fedia.io)
Hi all. As some of you have reported, outbound federation to at least some other instances is broken from fedia.io. At the moment. I don't know why and I don't have any leads as there are no logs or other indications of what is going wrong, but I am working on it.
Fedia.io federation woes (fedia.io)
Hi all. Several of you have reported problems with fedia.io not federating with other instances correctly....
does fedia.io federate properly? (fedia.io)
for two days, threads posted on fedia.io magazines apparently do not show up on lemmy > this does not only affect the poetry magazine, but also https://fedia.io/m/FloatingIsFun - i guess the same applies to other fedia.io magazines > i have already checked both lemmy.world and infosec.pub: no new threads show up
Please let me know if you continue to see errors with voting on Fedia.io (fedia.io)
We made some changes a few minute ago that we hope fixes the problem. There may be some other lingering issues, but I am hoping the voting problem is fixed now. Let me know below if you continue to see that problem.
Error when voting (fedia.io)
I tried to upvote this comment:...
Possible federation issues? (fedia.io)
I'm noticing that my comments are not getting federated to (at least) lemmy.world, wondering if there's something going on with federation....
Closing registrations in Fedia.io due to spammers (fedia.io)
Until I implement a better system to screen out spammers, I will be closing registrations on Fedia.io. That’s not what I want - I’d like for it to be available for legitimate accounts, but the spam is off the hook....
Account creation issue (lemmy.world)
When trying to register, I fill out a username, email, and password (copy/pasted from a password manager, so no chance of mistyping). I complete the captcha, check the consent box, click register, and... nothing. Page refreshes, but there's no errors displayed or anything. I've tried resetting my password, but I never get an...
Fedia.io is now operating behind Fastly CDN (fedia.io)
All hail our new content delivery overlords...
Fedia.io now behind Fastly CDN (fedia.io)
Hello everyone. Today, I moved fedia.io behind the Fastly CDN. This should make the site consistently fast for everyone, no matter where you are in the world. It'll also help with bandwidth usage and mitigate DDoS attacks....
Fedia.io instability (fedia.io)
Hi all. I've been having some problems keeping fedia.io running - at the moment, either the message workers or the php web server processes are dying after an hour or so and I have to restart everything. I have been working with the mbin team and installed some updates that we hoped would fix the problems, but no luck. I am...