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...
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....
Right now the default sort for threads is "Hot". Can I change the default somehow? I don't know if the option exists or if I'm blind, I can't find it anyhow.
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...
ok - I took a bit different approach. Since I know what error in rabbitmq's log file is associated with things coming to a stop on fedia.io, I installed swatchdog and set it up to look for that word (which is, btw, "timeout"). I created a script that stops all the messengers, then stops php-fpm, keydb, and rabbitmq. Then it start rabbit, keydb, and php-fpm in order. Finally, it restarts the messengers.
I will be surprised if it works first time, so it may still crash again but I'll be watching
Fedia is still having some stability issues. I set up some automation to detect the problem and then restart the services. If you were to look at that page while the services were restarting, you will see that error
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.
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...
all posts/actions made by any server don't go to every other server. There has to be a relationship between a server and an account on another server in order for that server to "subscribe". Once someone on a server follows your account, your public posts are visible to others on the server. If no one on the server follows you, they would have to specifically search for your username and follow you, and at that point, they would see new posts you make after they followed you.
There are activitypub relays that mitigate this issue a bit, but neither lemmy nor mbin support those.
Can you shoot me the IP address(es) you are assigned? I will see if there is some reason the firewall would be blocking them. Beyond that, I am guessing Orange is doing something to filter it
The recent version seems to cause PHP to off into space somewhat frequently. I am working to mitigate it - which will likely, at least for a while, require me to restart the services every few hours until we can figure out what the actual cause is.
After creating a new photo post to https://fedia.io/m/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world it seems to automatically convert it to a thread post and it loses the photo, figured i'm not the only one having this issue...
Shortly after upgrading to Mbin 1.7.1-rc1, php ran out of workers. I dramatically increased the limit. It isn’t clear to me why that happened and if it’s related to the upgrade or just coincidental. My intuition is that it’s related, but I have no evidence.
Shortly after upgrading to Mbin 1.7.1-rc1, php ran out of workers. I dramatically increased the limit. It isn’t clear to me why that happened and if it’s related to the upgrade or just coincidental. My intuition is that it’s related, but I have no evidence.
Hello everyone. I just upgraded fedia.io to mbin 1.7.1-rc1. One of the notable changes is that mbin is deprecating mercure, which is the component that provided streaming updates. As such, you will have to refresh the web page to see new posts and comments.
It’s more nuanced than that. If they look at your profile from a mastodon/etc instance, they’ll see the post. If they are on an instance that has someone who follows you and watch the federated/globel feed, they’ll see the post. And a few other specific situations.
The (relatively new) server that Fedia.io was running on, a Hetzner AX 162-R, died overnight. Hetzner tells me that the main board failed and had to be replaced. In the process of repairing, the raid set got corrupted and would no longer boot....
Hetzner makes their own servers in a form factor that works for their rack space. There are lots of YouTube videos on that. I don’t know specifically why these are failing, but being an old time engineer and knowing the CPU they are running, I am going to bet it has something to do with cooling. Either the main board is getting too hot (I monitor CPU temp and that seemed fine) or it is related to either vibration from the certainly larger CPU fan it needs, or somehow related to how the CPU impacts the power supply - possibly creating noise that ultimately burns out capacitors or something similar.
Fedia.io has 422 monthly active users - basically, 422 accounts have logged in within the past 30 days. I suppose I am comparing it to infosec.exchange, which has about 15000 monthly active users. I do believe that fedia.io is the most active mbin or kbin instance, by a factor of 2 or 3, but relatively quiet in comparison to Mastodon and Lemmy.
Apologies for having registrations closed. The moderation tools in Mbin/kbin are very very basic and I keep experiencing large numbers of spam signups, with no meaningful way to handle them until they sign up and start spamming
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....
How do I change default sort in threads? (fedia.io)
Right now the default sort for threads is "Hot". Can I change the default somehow? I don't know if the option exists or if I'm blind, I can't find it anyhow.
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...
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...
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Can't access fedia.io from certain mobile ISP (fedia.io)
My ISP is Orange Poland...
High rate of HTTP 5XX errors in the past day or so. (fedia.io)
It's probably already on your radar but I didn't see a thread* about it so I figured I would mention it....
* Fixed : Ever since this past weekends fedia.io downtime/upgrade can't post photo post to lemmy shitpost (fedia.io)
After creating a new photo post to https://fedia.io/m/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world it seems to automatically convert it to a thread post and it loses the photo, figured i'm not the only one having this issue...
Unplanned downtime (fedia.io)
Shortly after upgrading to Mbin 1.7.1-rc1, php ran out of workers. I dramatically increased the limit. It isn’t clear to me why that happened and if it’s related to the upgrade or just coincidental. My intuition is that it’s related, but I have no evidence.
Unplanned downtime (fedia.io)
Shortly after upgrading to Mbin 1.7.1-rc1, php ran out of workers. I dramatically increased the limit. It isn’t clear to me why that happened and if it’s related to the upgrade or just coincidental. My intuition is that it’s related, but I have no evidence.
Fedia.io upgraded to mbin 1.7.1-rc1 + important note about streaming updates (fedia.io)
Hello everyone. I just upgraded fedia.io to mbin 1.7.1-rc1. One of the notable changes is that mbin is deprecating mercure, which is the component that provided streaming updates. As such, you will have to refresh the web page to see new posts and comments.
403 forbidden when DMing (fedia.io)
I tried to DM a Lemmy user. This URL was associated to the mail icon:...
What actually happens when posting to a microblog? (fedia.io)
Where does it end up and who can see it? Do they get federated?
Unplanned downtime on Fedia.io (fedia.io)
The (relatively new) server that Fedia.io was running on, a Hetzner AX 162-R, died overnight. Hetzner tells me that the main board failed and had to be replaced. In the process of repairing, the raid set got corrupted and would no longer boot....
Anyone experienced with graphic designing interested in creating a mascot for m/AskMbin (successor to m/AskKbin) and other Mbin communities? (fedia.io)
Hello everyone,...
Terms of Service needs to be updated? Still says Kbin, when we are using mbin. (fedia.io)
Title pretty much, looks like the ToS is outdated, might be the same for privacy policy.
Looks like Fedia isn't updating again (fedia.io)
appears to be a problem with updating/dederation
No new posts on Fedia all day? Federation broken? (fedia.io)
Hi, it appears that federation is down on Fedia. I haven't seen any new posts all day. Anyone else seeing the same thing?