They have given gratis shell access going back well over a decade. Shame to see it end.

times out from tor

It’s back online with not a peep from the admin as to what happened. Logins work only via the web UI, but it just gives a non-stop stream of “401 the access token is invalid” popups.

spontaneously. No warning to users.

Although I wonder how an instance admin would warn users.

The clearnet server is fine but the onion server¹ is non-responsive.

1. iejideks5zu2v3zuthaxu5zz6m5o2j7vmbd24wh6dnuiyl7c6rfkcryd.onion

The cert for lemmy.sdf.org has issues. Not sure if it expired or what, but some apps report the key is unusable and only facilitate access after ~3-4 steps of authorizing the bad key. Some apps say the site is unavailable, full stop.. no option to continue.

This just started today.

504 Gateway Time-out

These are Lemmy instances with a “Sign Up” link which present you with a form to fill out to register. Then after you fill out the form and supply information like email address to the server, they respond with “registration closed”:

• lemmy.escapebigtech.info (dead node now, but got instant reg. closed msg when they were alive)
• expats.zone
• hackertalks.com
• lemmie.be
• lemmy.killtime.online
• lemmy.kmoneyserver.com
• lemmy.sarcasticdeveloper.com
• level-up.zone
• zoo.splitlinux.org

I suppose it’s unlikely to be malice considering how many there are. It’s likely a case of shitty software design. There should be a toggle for open/closed registration and when it’s closed there should be no “Sign Up” button in the first place. And if someone visits the registration URL despite a lack of Sign Up link, it should show a reg. closed announcement.

Guess it’s worth mentioning there are some instances that accept your application for review (often with interview field) but then either let

It’s probably a good thing to find that nlemmy.nl is down, considering the parent of this thread was censored despite not breaking any rules.

(update) the moderator just admitted the removal was to silence an idea that clashes with the moderator’s anti-cash / pro-forced-banking view. So it was not a good place for open civil discussion.. just a black hole for msgs that oppose the mod’s world view.

I’m just noticing this instance for the first time. Judging by the hostname, it’s a node that’s devoted to #XMPP chatter. But I cannot reach it. Getting timeouts from Tor. This could mean that they are down, or it could be that they block Tor in the rudest possible way (dropping packets).

To me, it’s a ghost node because I can reach a tiny cache of posts from [email protected] locally:

https://sopuli.xyz/c/[email protected]

cc: @[email protected]

I just started using the LaTeX community ([email protected]). Sad to see it go.

update

Just noticed it’s back up, but there are no communities. That’s bizarre. So if someone not on lemmy.sdfeu.org were to post to [email protected], I guess it’d still be like a ghost node because the post would have nowhere to go on the hosting node.

Nano Garden was a node for the Nano cryptocurrency. There is was a “cashless society” community which is now a ghost community:

https://sopuli.xyz/c/[email protected]

I would normally say refugees should move to [email protected], but it looks like there aren’t many refugees. It always was relatively dead. Which is a shame. There needs to be more people talking about the consequences of #forcedBanking.

It was a Lemmy service that centered on law. Now it gives a 404.

The threadiverse is starving for small decentralized nodes with a theme focus. There are far too many general purpose nodes. It’s a shame the law node is gone. There is nothing to replace it.

No idea how long it has been down.. just noticed the escapebigtech server has been nonresponsive all day. (Could be tor-hostility as I did not test further, but I doubt it)

Just like catcatnya, infosec.exchange just gives a black page. Up, but broken, at least in my browser.

(update) browser issue. Downvoted myself on this to lessen the visibility although some may still find that interesting so I’ll let the thread live.

catcatnya.com just gives a black page. Up, but broken, at least in my browser.

(update) browser issue. Downvoted myself on this to lessen the visibility although some may still find that interesting so I’ll let the thread live.

tested from tor. Also reported down by downinspector.com.

BTW, downinspector.com is the only Cloudflare-free service of its kind, but it’s notable that noscript reports XSS scripting attempts via Google.

(edit) it came back online yesterday.