The link on the sidebar of https://lemmy.ca/ is linked to lemmy.ca/c/support

Trying to connect to Lemmy.ca from Mexico, since about yesterday, I'm getting a connection refused. I have to VPN to Canada to use the site.

Is this normal behaviour?

Using Voyager, so maybe an issue with how it's communicating with the picture services?

This could be happening with other instances but I've only seen it with lw. Occasionally I'll make posts into lemmy.world communities that just don't federate. It's not delayed federation -- the post always exists in that community but only on the copy of it here and only Lemmy.ca users can see it and interact with it. It's kinda like a secret Canadian version of the community, I guess.

It's more of an inconvenience because it happens fairly infrequently but is this a known problem? Is it resolvable?

Edit: this just happened with the last story I posted to c/world. When it wasn't on the actual l.w page, I deleted it, reposted it, and it worked fine. In the past though, there have been stretches of up to a few hours where nothing makes it off the server.

In settings, I've checked 'open links in new tab', but it doesn't work. Is there anything I can do to fix it?

ETA Someone suggested I try a different interface, and turns out it works fine in alex.lemmy.ca, just not lemmy.ca. So problem is at least kind of solved! Thanks so much everyone for taking the time to help!

Link posts from thetyee.ca appear to be previewing the Cloudflare captcha challenge "Attention Required! | Cloudflare" prompt instead of actual content.

What it looks like (two examples - this seems to be a consistent problem for thetyee):

What it should look like (a different post):

My guess is that the rich link preview is generated in Lemmy's backend, and Cloudflare thinks that the IP address of lemmy.ca's host is full of bots.

No educated guess on the solution, though, but I'd guess that other Lemmy admins have s

All frontends other than the default at lemmy.ca seem to be down, giving a Cloudflare 520 error message.

Long story short, there are individuals everywhere on the web who disdain me for different reasons who like to express that by smearing me, and one of them showed up in [email protected] to make statements which are a mix of slander and unconsented reveal of personal info.

This is further shown by the fact that, if you see their info, their current name is a day old and none of what was said under it (with a single exception) pertains to anything unrelated to me (and the individual even openly redirects to some of the other places where they have harassed me, and in the responses I do too).

In classic fashion, the people responding there seem to not want to acknowledge the possibility that it breaks the rules, or that anything it says I am guilty of that I was ever actually guilty of was dealt with long ago (as opposed to it mainly being things taken out of context), and just keep saying "look what you've don

Im very new to lemmy.ca and to the fediverse. Im trying to figure out how to best navigate between things like lemmy.ca and lemmy.world I was under the impression you only needed one acct to go between them, but when I try my credentials at lemmy.world it says they are invalid.

Can someone maybe break this down like im 5?

Thanks in advance!

I find the frontend very useful as it has the media bias check indicator on shared articles and allows you to see how many elements of each category exists in the Lemmy search UI. Not to mention the troll buster feature where egregious trolls can be banned from all the moderated communities of a user.

Ever since things came back up after the Jan 5th outage, I've started to encounter regular timeouts. I will scroll past a couple dozen number posts and then it will stop as of there are no more. Within a few seconds, the application produces a time out error.

I use Boost for Lemmy as my client, but I'm not convinced that the issue is the app since switching my instance allows me to continue scrolling without a problem. And to be clear, prior to January 5th, I've never experienced a timeout in the app.

I'm curious if I'm the only one experiencing timeouts on Lemmy.ca. If so, then I'm curious if the admins are aware of any issue.

[10 Feb 2025 Update: After Lemmy.ca was updated to 0.19.9, cloudflare account changed, and their hardware infrastructure replaced... everything has started functioning normally again. I can't say what the cause was yet, but the WebUI and any connected app is scrolling through feeds without any timeouts now. 💯]