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!

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

“To generalize is to be an idiot.” - William Blake