When I suddenly began receiving over 750K requests per day from AI bots, I did significantly tighten firewall rules so the server could get back online (it was throwing gateway timeouts). This issue is probably collateral damage.
The firewall does not block any ISPs in Uruguay, so I don't believe Uruguay is a factor.
There are several new layers of firewall rules. One of them is blocking the request.
The information I need to adjust the firewall may be in the paste bin post (thank you for this!). But if there is anything more you can tell me about what is trying to read the message, it would be helpful. Which phone app, for example?
I'll have more time to look at this tomorrow. I may have more questions. Hopefully I can reproduce the issue.
This comes up once in a while, and not just with feddit.online. I've never figured it out. I only know that eventually the problem disappears and the login happens. My theory is that somewhere the login error is getting cached, and regardless of whether you enter the correct credentials, you get the failure from the cache.
I've wanted to test this by refreshing the entire instance cache while it's happening to see if it would help, but cache entries time out eventually, and maybe this is what resolved it for you. Had you not had it self-resolved, then I would have tried the cache refresh.
This is how Federation works. What PieFed does is it tries to initialize the new community with the last 50 posts, if it can. New posts will federate going forward..
@wjs018@piefed.social: Can you comment? You're close to the code.
The developers said this is a common issue in Lemmy as well, but they made a change to fix these during the weekly maintenance run, so they will automatically unpin within a week if they don't happen automatically.
I don't see a workaround. Both the display name and the account name have the same special character. The only option may be to start over with a new account, and give up the great look :(
So I checked the logs, and it turns out that your username, Ænima, which, by the way, I love, is causing your votes to be rejected.
https://feddit.online/activities/like/ Like failure could not send:'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xc6' in position 31: ordinal not in range(128)
@rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz @rimu@piefed.social Rimu, is this just a Piefed limitation, or would these special characters be impacting for other Fediverse applications?
What is the best approach for resolving this?
Rimu is the main developer. If he doesn't see this, I'll ping him.
Nope. If you click the crescent moon icon at the top right, it should toggle between the light and dark modes, whihc currently won't look good since they introduced a display defect last night. So, it will look better later today.
I'm an Admin with a bunch of public servers. If someone was as disrespectful to me, as the one here whining about their ban, I'd permanently block them from every one of my servers as well. It's not the mod who is power tripping, it's the one whining about getting kicked out after posting an incredibly stupid and rude response.
And, Deceptichum, you came here and lied about why you were banned just to try to get revenge on the mod. Your ban had nothing to do with additional perspectives, and you knew it when you made the claim here. Maybe, the only honesty you've exhibited is your name.
When I suddenly began receiving over 750K requests per day from AI bots, I did significantly tighten firewall rules so the server could get back online (it was throwing gateway timeouts). This issue is probably collateral damage.
The firewall does not block any ISPs in Uruguay, so I don't believe Uruguay is a factor.
There are several new layers of firewall rules. One of them is blocking the request.
The information I need to adjust the firewall may be in the paste bin post (thank you for this!). But if there is anything more you can tell me about what is trying to read the message, it would be helpful. Which phone app, for example?
I'll have more time to look at this tomorrow. I may have more questions. Hopefully I can reproduce the issue.
Thanks for reporting this!
You don't need to be an artist to post here. The topic is the feddit.online server. Anybody can participate.
Ah. Then yes, this would not be the community to use.
I think here is fine. This community is for discussing feddit.online.
This comes up once in a while, and not just with feddit.online. I've never figured it out. I only know that eventually the problem disappears and the login happens. My theory is that somewhere the login error is getting cached, and regardless of whether you enter the correct credentials, you get the failure from the cache.
I've wanted to test this by refreshing the entire instance cache while it's happening to see if it would help, but cache entries time out eventually, and maybe this is what resolved it for you. Had you not had it self-resolved, then I would have tried the cache refresh.
I'm going to do more investigation this weekend.
Thanks for reporting it.
This is how Federation works. What PieFed does is it tries to initialize the new community with the last 50 posts, if it can. New posts will federate going forward..
@wjs018@piefed.social: Can you comment? You're close to the code.
It's a reaction to this news article: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/google-sent-personal-and-financial-information-of-student-journalist-to-ice/
Excellent and impressive! A big THANK YOU to all the devs!
The developers said this is a common issue in Lemmy as well, but they made a change to fix these during the weekly maintenance run, so they will automatically unpin within a week if they don't happen automatically.
Hi,
I went ahead and unpinned them. Thanks for pointing it out.
I don't see any way to set a moderator to just be able to unpin.
I opened an issue for this: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1075
The developers usually respond quickly.
Jerry
Thanks! I have no art talent, so I turned to AI. I used canva.com to create it.
Yeah. I believe you are right. The account username is "ænima" but I only see "Ænima" on posts and stuff.
I don't see a workaround. Both the display name and the account name have the same special character. The only option may be to start over with a new account, and give up the great look :(
Hi.
So I checked the logs, and it turns out that your username, Ænima, which, by the way, I love, is causing your votes to be rejected.
https://feddit.online/activities/like/ Like failure could not send:'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xc6' in position 31: ordinal not in range(128)
@rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz @rimu@piefed.social Rimu, is this just a Piefed limitation, or would these special characters be impacting for other Fediverse applications? What is the best approach for resolving this?
Rimu is the main developer. If he doesn't see this, I'll ping him.
I'm sorry about this. I know it's frustrating.
Nope. If you click the crescent moon icon at the top right, it should toggle between the light and dark modes, whihc currently won't look good since they introduced a display defect last night. So, it will look better later today.
"To generalize is to be an idiot." - William Blake
I'm an Admin with a bunch of public servers. If someone was as disrespectful to me, as the one here whining about their ban, I'd permanently block them from every one of my servers as well. It's not the mod who is power tripping, it's the one whining about getting kicked out after posting an incredibly stupid and rude response.
And, Deceptichum, you came here and lied about why you were banned just to try to get revenge on the mod. Your ban had nothing to do with additional perspectives, and you knew it when you made the claim here. Maybe, the only honesty you've exhibited is your name.
Oops. Thank you for pointing this out!
Yeah, when having to put, I don't know, over a thousand communities, manually, into topics, the brain starts taking shortcuts.
I'm sure there are more that I messed up. Thank you for catching this! And thank you for the explanation. I had no idea...