and to note hasn't seen any progress or work in 3 years
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.
not surprising, but super disappointing. Beeper Mini was a dream come true
eBay doesn't have workers, it's a marketplace that facilitates transactions between sellers and buyers
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)
A lot of people are missing the big picture here. Look up Starshield. SpaceX is aggressively hiring for the Starlink DoD edition essentially. I suspect the US govt is not as worried about this as you think
I'm gonna go against the grain and say this is awesome and I'm excited for it. I love talking to other people about less-popular songs. I think it could really add a cool social aspect
Freesync yes, HDR soon™
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!
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.
There are more Android devices, so I'm optimistic Google's alternative could be great
I don't understand why this exists. Polestar has enough problems lol