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kbin.social on lemmy.ca? (self.lemmy_ca_support)

submitted 2 years ago by canadork to c/lemmy_ca_support

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Trying to follow any community/magazine from kbin.social on lemmy.ca keeps ending up with and endless 'subscribe pending'.

I've tried unsubbing and resubbing and leaving it for a few days in case it was moderated (totally get the mods being overwhelmed right now!).

Anyone else running into this? I'm starting to wonder if it's a glitch or something I'm doing wrong?

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[–] smorks 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

yeah i just tested it on https://sh.itjust.works/ and it works fine there too. will do some digging into it to see if i can figure it out.

there also seems to be some issues searching lemmy.ca stuff from mastodon servers too, so maybe it's all related.

[–] tezoatlipoca 2 points 2 years ago

if you need a 3rd party to help test schtuff out ill me online for a bit. Here or @[email protected]

[–] canadork 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for looking into it!

[–] smorks 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ok, i believe i know why it's happening. kbin.social appears to be using cloudflare as a proxy, and for some reason when accessing it from the server that lemmy.ca is running on, it returns a "cloudflare is verifying the connection" type page, which obviously isn't the the response that lemmy is looking for.

i'm not sure how to get around this, and not sure why it works on other servers? i'll keep poking around to see if i can get around this somehow.

[–] yelgo 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, the kbin admin/developer had to enable cloudflare's ddos protection temporarily to prevent the site from going down due to a huge influx of traffic from reddit. Once things stabilize it should go back to normal.