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Any idea on when the API with Lemmyverse will work again? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone,

Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere, I couldn't find any other thread about this.

Basically title, I know that the Lemmy.world communities are not listed on Lemmyverse anymore due to some API issues, do you guys have any idea on when it will come back?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's the issue on the lemmyverse.net github

They said they reached out to lemmy.world admins. Do we know if they got in touch?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Negative, I'll have a look tomorrow to see if they gave contact info on Lemmyverse

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

(Mostly asking this question as it affects the daily posts in [email protected] )

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same (or similar) issue going on with fanaticus.social. Posts and comments haven’t federated between lemmy.world and fanaticus.social for about two weeks now. Hoping things get worked out soon, though I’m sure they have had their hands busy stopping attacks.

[+] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] freamon 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This being the default answer for all issues kinda prevents any discussion of any issue that might be unrelated.

The API problem is that you do (ignore the ampersand issue for a moment):
curl 'https://lemmy.world/api/v3/community/list?type_=Local&sort=Old&limit=1&page=250010&show_nsfw=true' | jq .
and it will return a response for a page of Communities it can't possibly have. It's a never-ending list that can't be indexed.

The thing, it returns without issue - there's no connectivity problems that DDOS attacks would cause.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are any other instances affected?

[–] freamon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. Just .world. Every other instance returns an empty array when the end of the list of Communities is reached. We'd know if they didn't, because they'd break web crawlers too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How peculiar. Could they be running a custom Lemmy build?

[–] freamon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think there was a change to the API in a recent release of Lemmy, that .world hasn't accounted for correctly. I'm guessing because this post has the two most common responses to tech questions about .world: silence from anyone who could actually answer, and the usual "it'll be them DDOS attacks".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's odd. You'd think they'd want to address it. It's bad for visibility. @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed, and the situation (fingers crossed) seems to be quite stable now, hence the question