Recently, I’ve noticed federated threads/comments/votes were lagging behind, and it turns out kbin.earth was being spammed (hundreds in a minute, leading to a couple thousand queued messages after only half an hour) by a Lemmy server with the same exact activity pub message. After blocking the server (feddit.de), federation should now work correctly. If the admins of the server ever fix the issue, I’ll be glad to unblock it.

Edit: turns out, this was probably actually a kbin issue, but at least it’s fixed the issues temporarily.

  • Oofnik@kbin.earth
    2·
    8 months ago

    Hi,
    Did you really mean me? I certainly am a real person, if someone is using my account to spam Lemmy I would be happy to know, I can delete the account and make a new one. I just looked at my profile and I have only posted one comment that I see, on this very thread.

    • MrKaplan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      yes, really you.

      i believe this is a bug in kbin somewhere causing (almost) endless loops for the same activities (data sent between instances to communicate your actions like votes) over and over again.

      all the accounts i’ve looked at so far are (or at least look like) real users. we do not believe that this is a malicious action triggered intentionally by someone who has access to the account. you just happen to be one of the unlucky so far 37 users affected by this.

        • MrKaplan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          I don’t want to tell people not to interact with the platform, but it seems that it’s mostly votes triggering this issue currently.
          Not voting kinda defeats the point of the platform in the first place.
          I don’t think there’s really anything for you to do different, at least not until it’s known what exactly triggers this issue.

          We’re currently evaluating a solution on our end to ignore all votes coming in from kbin.social, which we may consider extending to other kbin instances if necessary. That should mitigate most of this hopefully.

            • MrKaplan@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              4 months ago

              Hello,

              I just wanted to let you know that I have lifted your community ban for !world@lemmy.world now.

              I originally expected to be lifting the entire set of bans once the underlying kbin issue was addressed, but unfortunately that never happened. Since you were the only affected kbin user that wasn’t on kbin.social you were more affected by this than the rest, as kbin.social has been dead for a while now.

              I apologize that this wasn’t done sooner, especially considering that kbin.earth migrated to mbin a few months ago already.

              • Oofnik@kbin.earth
                1·
                4 months ago

                All good, I’m mostly a lurker anyway.

                Thanks for following up though! Much appreciated.