We’ve temporarily defederated from Hexbear due to a Lemmy bug with very deeply nested comment threads.

OUR POSTING CONTINUES TO BE TOO STRONG COMRADES NEVER STOP POSTING

edit: comments are fun, zip ppl are nice

Sorry for posting too hard

If I had to hazard a guess as to the cause, it's probably some of the mutual aid requests that get posted to incorrect communities, and then get slammed with—

B

U

M

P

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N

G

T

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—where each letter is a new reply to itself. I've seen some go as deep as 200+ comments before the posts are removed.

Here is an example of a post from today in the Games community.

Isolationists take every win we can get

Another endangered species killed by outdoor cats

That's why we stole the rainbow from god

There is always an axis.worlder crying about us like we are federated

strikes again

i'm extremely disappointed it was just bump spam and not a spirited debate about stacking cats in outdoor voting booths

I like zip. You never know what you're gonna get from them. Hope we can rejoin them soon

we were postmaxxing too much

If you can't handle me at my

then you'll never experience me at my

Does anyone know which thread caused the issue in particular with the user bumping the thread and repeatedly causing crashes?

Probably wasn't me.

(In response to a .world user complaining that .zip should stay defederated)

It’s the myth of consensual sex federation meme, but it’s hexbear, lemmy.zip saying “I consent” and this goober saying “I don’t”

Oh no, not the zip