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consumer451 ,

Damn. That’s a tough pill to swallow.

consumer451 ,

I see that IP addresses are logged.

Are those public as well then?

consumer451 ,

What about IP addresses? I see those are logged. Are they available to query?

I would imagine so, right?

If so, ummmmmmmm. That is not ok.

consumer451 ,

But if I understand this, anyone that makes a lemmy instance can see the IPs of any commenter or voter, on any other instance?

consumer451 , (edited )

Ok, sure. But the difference is that I can’t make my own Reddit instance and then see all Reddit users IP addresses.

What is the vetting process of getting an instance federated?

Like if I was an authoritarian henchman, could I make an instance with a community about cats, get federated, then see all the IPs of users calling my boss a pooh bear, on all other instances?

Edit: what about swatting?

consumer451 ,

This sounds a lot like “not my problem.” I am familiar with this type of response, but usually this level of irresponsible indifference comes from those evil VC backed companies. Except they don’t usually say it out loud.

If this is the attitude of the devs, I am deleting all my glowing recommendations of lemmy on other sites.

Is this really the attitude of the devs?

YSK: Hitting submit more than once will post your comment/thread multiple times, even with the lag

With the sluggishness of the site these last few days you can sometimes get slowness or infinitely loading icon when hitting submit. If you aren’t sure if your post submitted, refresh the original page in a different tab before hitting submit again to see if it went through. I see double and triple posts in almost every...

consumer451 , (edited )

Just to add to this, at least in wefwef, I sometimes get an error when I tap Post, saying that it failed. I am then left on the page, and can hit Post again. But it didn’t fail the first time, the post was made.

So this is not just users being impatient. There is a bug.

consumer451 , (edited )

I have not written real code for a very long time, and I don’t know the lemmy code base at all… but I described this bug to GPT-4 and it just turned me on to idempotency.

stripe.com/blog/idempotency

The call could succeed, but the connection breaks before the server can tell its client about it.

Seems like it’s non-trivial to implement in rust.

www.lpalmieri.com/posts/idempotency/

consumer451 ,

This brings up my main questions with mastodon and lemmy… who is going to pay the server costs at scale?

It would be nice if those mechanisms began sooner than later.

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