this should be fixed now, Cloudflare was detecting a potential vbulletin exploit
afaik this is not something that we were involved in, but the lemmy devs implemented a threshold to exclude instances with 30% or more monthly active user share.
i don't mind it, better distribution of users across instances is good.
seems like youtube is using incorrect geoip mapping.
our server is hosted in finland, but afaik google is running their own geolocation stuff, which i think is less accurate than other geoip databases.
ah, that makes sense. anaustralianphotographersnotesbook is 34 characters and the limit is at 26 currently.
I believe some alternative UIs/mobile apps have this feature but it's not available in the default Lemmy interface.
I believe this was due to rate limits being misconfigured. Should be fixed now.
I believe this was due to rate limits being misconfigured. Should be fixed now.
we all do this in our spare time. if we had set working hours then it would be easy to do so, but even then I don't think a daily maintenance window would be necessary when we don't changes that frequently.
we believed this change to be doable without downtime, otherwise we would've announced it ahead of time.
this change is important for our anti spam measures, especially if we tune it to be more aggressive, which might increase the false positive rate, it is important for us to be able to distinguish removed pms from user deleted pms in case we need to restore them at a later point.
due to that it's a somewhat urgent change that was fit in where we had spare time available to allow us to continue improving our efforts to combat pm spam effectively.
(mobile) apps could do this, but I don't think browser based apps would be able to. the generation of YouTube thumbnails works by requesting the html content of the YouTube page and then extracting a metadata component from it, where YouTube provides the actual preview image as a link. browsers set restrictions on how you can interact with other websites for security reasons and I dint think this would be allowed there.
manually this is of course doable, but it's rather cumbersome.
we're aware of this issue and already looking into it
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hi,
there was a bad cloudflare block rule from back in 2023 that blocked these requests.
i had previously disabled it to see if that had any bad impact but forgot to follow up on that to fully remove it, so it got reactivated in a later configuration change. it's fully removed now.