UPDATE: seems like this has been fixed with the update to 0.18.1 https://programming.dev/instances

I can see their posts so I know they aren’t actually banned

https://programming.dev/instances

looks like maybe they had their domain name set with the https:// in it and that was breaking stuff? has this been fixed in the Lemmy code yet? we shouldn’t have to manually ban invalid domain names

  • ruffsl@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    It looks like midwest.social is listed as both linked and blocked. Quite strange. That instance is rather benign, as far as I can tell. @snowe@programming.dev , did we block that domain temporarily due to federation load issues?

    • Die4Ever@programming.devOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think it’s literally blocking a misconfigured domain name, like at one point their config might’ve had the domain name specified as “https://midwest.social” when it should be just “midwest.social”

      since federation by default is allow-all, any bugs like that should be fixed so we don’t have to manually block all the bad config values possible, or imagine if an instance was maliciously using invalid config values