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Why have we started blocking lemmy.world? (NO LONGER BLOCKED) (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/sdfpubnix@lemmy.sdf.org
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UPDATE: @SDF@lemmy.sdf.org has responded

It is temporary as lemmy.world was cascading duplicates at us and the only way to keep the site up reliably was to temporarily drop them. We’re in the process of adding more hardware to increase RAM, CPU cores and disk space. Once that new hardware is in place we can try turning on the firehose. Until then, please patient.

ORIGINAL POST:

Starting sometime yesterday afternoon it looks like our instance started blocking lemmy.world: https://lemmy.sdf.org/instances

A screenshot of the page at https://lemmy.sdf.org/instances showing the lemmy.world instance on the blocklist

This is kind of a big deal, because 1/3rd of all active users originate there! A pie chart depicting the top instances by usershare. The lemmy.world instance is in the top spot with 1/3 of the total usershare

Was this decision intentional? If so, could we get some clarification about it? @SDF@lemmy.sdf.org

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[–] [S] 0 points 3 years ago (4 children)

As someone working on integrations I'd also have to leave if we're permanently blocking the largest instance, but I'd like to give SDF the benefit of the doubt here. Maybe this was just a temporary measure to deal with the insane load from yesterday?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    For me lemmy still doesn't work. At least not without U.S. VPN. Otherwise I get error: 502 Bad Gateway

    Maybe it's just not fully up yet.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don't know if geoblocking is a thing, but just FYI: there are additional Lemmy SDF instances for EU & JP regions which may work better depending on where you're based.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Ah, seems like blacklisted IP. Since I am behind CG-NAT the public IP is simultaneously shared between many users. I tried disconnecting and reconnecting to the network which changed my public IP, and it works now.

    We really need the IPv6.

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