I posted this:

https://thelemmy.club/post/56740107

It should be on my profile page, but it is not. Yet on that page directly, outside slrpnk, the post is there. Visiting https://slrpnk.net/c/AskReddit@thelemmy.club is possible but shows no posts.

Update

The original problem (mentioned above) was due to a block I had on thelemmy.club as they were previously Cloudflare. But a new problem has emerged: I cannot see comments in this thread herein.

Update 2: it’s a defect in the language settings

Someone tagged their post as “français”. That caused me to not receive a notification of their response to me. So I altered my settings. I had nothing selected for language. I changed my language to “unspecified” (literally). That fixed that problem, so I could then see the notification from the Francophone.

But then I could no longer see local posts with no language tags. WTF? Obviously it’s a defect. I had to deselect the language selection of “unspecified” in order to see the comments in this thread. But of course now I will not receive notifications of replies by Francophones.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/40597815

WTF Bob Dylan? A friend who is offline is blocked from buying tickets to Bob Dylan in Antwerp, Belgium. The concert is effectively exclusively for online people. Most likely cash payers must fuck off.

It’s exactly the kind of shit Bob Dylan should be bitching about in his songs. WTF, Bob Dylan?

I’ve not studied the ActivityPub protocol much, and certainly not examined the voting API. My question for those who have:

Is it possible or easy for a platform to suppress downvotes from users who have not first satisfied either of these preconditions:

• created a comment in the thread being downvoted; OR
• upvoted a comment in the thread being downvoted

?

And perhaps more complex, cancel the downvotes of cheaters who would circumvent the above policy by making a temporary dummy comment, downvoting, then deleting the dummy.

Voting is a shit-show on Lemmy. I wonder to what extent the ActivityPub API is the culprit or if it’s an implementation specific problem.

I have images disabled in my browser and also in my profile. So I should only be getting text when browsing a Lemmy server, and it should be compressed because TLS is in play and compression is usually/conventionally done before encryption (or so I thought). Animated GIFs are immune to my settings but I did not notice any.

After a couple(?) hours of activity involving mostly reading and writing and not a crazy amount of searching or jumping around, my session consumed ~65mb. That seems like a lot for just text. Hi-res binary images are often around 1 mb, so it seems a bit off that my text-only session would use the equivalent of 65 hi-res pics.

To give an idea of sizes, I have a text file holding 260 of my posts going back several months. The uncompressed size is 558k. It seems very unlikely that I would have read that many posts/comments in 2 hours. So 65mb is at least 2 orders of magnitude more bandwidth consumption than I would expect.

With probably 95+% of fedi ppl on quasi unlimited broadband, probably no one pays attention to this.

Any theories? I had a few different accounts open from different nodes. So I wonder if the JavaScript client code is where all the fat is, which must be fetched upon every single login. Would the stock Lemmy client code be as big as 10mb compressed? A few nodes have some kind of anti-bot thing that runs. I wonder if that has some network fat.