bless this jank

thank you for following up on that! I’m surprised it’s returning an invalid value — we’re not botting (to my knowledge at least, I’ll check the DB later and make sure nobody’s doing anything weird) and I haven’t written any code that touches nodeinfo directly. to be honest, if I were to modify our stats in any way I’d do it to make our instance look smaller, as larger instances tend to attract more bad actors.

I see that @[email protected] tried to initiate contact in that thread, but unfortunately I’m unable to reply directly because posts between our instances don’t seem to be federating — this could be due to a federation queue delay, or possibly an automated quarantine due to us being on the suspicious instances list.

my hunch is that our instance may be misreporting its nodeinfo due to a bug in our (now rather old) version of lemmy. I’ve been meaning to upgrade us for a while, but there is a bit of outstanding infrastructural work I’d like to do as part of that. since it seems to be impacting the health of our federation, I’ll prioritize an upgrade to the newest stable version.