What are you asking for?
Right out of the Lemmy documentation for servers:
journalctl -u lemmy
Log them to a file and dump them somewhere public, like a github repository. What is gong on in these logs when 500 errors are happening?
BitOneZero
joined 2 years ago
I’m not an official spokescritter, but I can assure you the Beehaw admins aren’t ignoring the issues.
They are not informing the end-users (and flocking new server installers) of the problem, they are leaving people like me wasting their time calling out the problem. Denial isn't just a river in Egypt. Lemmy isn't scaling, it's falling flat on it's face, and the federation protocols of doing one single like per https transaction are causing servers to overload peer servers. There isn't even anything built into lemmy_server to detect that posts&comment are misisng, nor any tools to 'heal' missing data.
Where are the server logs? Why are the crashes not being shared to developers? Do i really have to build up an instance with 5000 users to get access to the data that Beehaw's servers are logging each hour?
If you’ve got development skills, helping out the Lemmy project on Github is probably the best way to help.
I have been, I'm RocketDerp on Github. I've been watching for weeks how none of the people running the major sites have opened an issue on observable problems, so I have done so myself:
Major data integrity issues ignored since June 14 issue opened: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101
Obvious user-interface signs of the same problem reported June 19: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3203
The problems were going on weeks before I created these issues, and they are still being ignored. It wasn't in the 0.18 announcement today (June 23), etc.
It's been 8 days, still ongoing with multiple instances, and I do not see any open issue about 'nginx 50x' errors on Github project for lemmy. See public cry: https://lemmy.ml/post/1453121
I just posted a posting there that this needs testing, sounds like it is still buggy as of right this moment?
By listing instances based on user count they’re overloading and crashing the same old servers hourly (already), instead of treating instances like a federated decentralized network.
A huge number of servers have been added to Lemmy this month, and federation protocols within Lemmy are failing in their own way. Most users do not even realize that comments, likes, and postings are not reliably duplicated between the instances. See issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101
While yes, we should be able to delete our content if we want, but it’s a bit naive to think there could be true privacy in any decentralised social media platform.
Especially an email or "reddit" threaded conversation systems where quoting of messages is routine. Here I am, quoting you.
You are putting a billboard up in public, on a bulletin board in the center of the Internet, the assumption should be that anyone can photograph it.
Given the beta status of Lemmy, I don't even think it's a great idea to give the appearance of privacy. I think the core purpose of a webapp like Lemmy is public messages.
I think it's a can of worms for server operators to get into the business of thinking they can safely hold private messages between users/strangers. None of the Lemmy instances I've joined have had a "terms of service" or anything like that on SIgn Up, I really think the message should be sent far and wide that Lemmy is about posting IN PUBLIC and that messages are being FEDERATED to peers, even people that you don't know could be collecting the data for a search engine.
With small-time server operators opening up hundreds of Lemmy instances, without giving away their experience or human identity, how can you have any confidence that someone is properly securing a server they only have part-time job to update and operate? Major corporations are having their database stolen, Valve, Sony, Nintendo, health care companies, mobile network companies (AT&T)... you think a low-budget shoestring server by a hobbyist running Lemmy should be held to the same standards as a corporation who has an entire team and services to defend their data?
For example on this comment page there are 9 domains trying to connect directly to me according to ublock origin.
ublock origin isn't a firewall. They aren't connecting inbound to your system, you are loading content from those servers.
beehaw.org sees these two comments, bot others are missing.
There is a new SvelteKit JavaScript project for a lemmy-ui alternative: https://lemmy.world/comment/258368
Thank you. It's what's going on inside of lemmy.ml that concerns me the most, and I just don't grasp why the people running that server aren't opening issues about the precise logged errors on their server so that newcomers to the project have an idea what is happening.