I made a post here: https://lemmy.world/post/16949903

Hi. I raised an Issue on the crawler’s repo a couple of weeks ago. Still waiting for a response though …

Yeah, maybe. I’ll leave it with you …

Fixed now - a community called "wave" music caused a JSON deserialization error (because JSON uses " for its own purposes).

It’s been 2 weeks since I raised the Issue for 0.19.4 / 5 instances on lemmyverse - given that there’s been no response, we might have to give up with these lists anyway.

The last time I raised an Issue, the dev did respond, but it was a full week later. Maybe just considered low priority vs. other stuff in his life, rather than unmaintained. Hopefully, anyway. We’ll see …

For lemmyverse, the issue for it is here: https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/issues/184

We’ll have to wait until that dev responds, or maybe until Lemmy devs change their mind about not providing a nodeinfo 2.0 response for 0.19.4 instances.

More and more stuff won’t feature as instances continue to upgrade to 0.19.4, as lemmyverse.net doesn’t yet support it (there was something like 582 instances listed yesterday on there, it’s 572 now).

Hello. This data is sourced from lemmyverse.net, which uses its own crawler, distinct from the lemmy-stats one. The underlying issue is likely the same, so I’ve filed a bug here (past experience suggests that the dev won’t be that quick responding to it though)

The instance I’m on is defederated from links.hackliberty.org. I’m not certain why, but I looked at it to find it’s a place for conspiracy theories, including ‘9/11 Truth’ stuff, so it’s probably that.
There looks to be a bit of indecision about the right instance for a new ‘privacy’ community, so I’m just mentioning this in regard to that.

That’s kinda funny, in a way - unsophisticated prevention for an unsophisticated attack.

Everyone trying to use the Internet normally suffers due to this kind of stuff.

Nothing yet for today (Sunday), because the crawler at lemmyverse has failed. More info is here: https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/actions/runs/9434433542/job/25986550190 - it’s bailed because there are 6011 communities missing from that run compared to the previous one. I’ve seen that number before, which suggests it’s a single instance with that many communities which is failing to give a response.

EDIT: the midday run worked though.

That’s great to hear. There’s zero API at the moment though, let alone a stable one. PieFed is a monolith, without the backend / front-end split that necessitates an API.

It easy to add one, pending the addition of some missing features and a code reorganization that needs to happen anyway. At that point, hopefully some interested app developers will also be involved, to shape the API into something they may wish that other app’s APIs were like.

It seems to be quite a lot for the server it’s hosted on though (which is not the snappiest). There are, of course, still areas in the world where - for one reason or another - people still are effectively on dial-up speed-wise.

Buster should turn their attention to the size of the images uploaded to servers like this: 1.1M is arguably overkill for this one.

Yep, if you visit London as a Northerner it’s very clear where the money is going. In retrospect, the Northern legs of HS2 were never going to happen - the money saved being diverted to fix London’s potholes was the icing on the cake.

That’s the book I was referring to, yep.

I think most bread that’s available to buy is actually junk. Even the ‘wholemeal’ stuff, which itself obfuscates what you actually want: wholegrain. Ideally, the carbs percentage shouldn’t be more than 5 times the fibre percentage (according to the ‘How not to die’ book), but I’ve found that very little that actually meets that.

This is why people can become obese without understanding why: the over-processing of food considered as staples.

Most people will be unaffected ('cos their instance already has a copy), but trippingthroughtime has a broken outbox, so it won’t come with old posts if it’s a fresh discovery. Issue should be fixed in Lemmy’s 0.19.4 update.

I think it’s more just for discovery. They provide a guide here which recommends https://tilvids.com/ as a PeerTube instance you can sign up with.

https://fedi.video/ has organised a bunch of channels into playlists that has some crossover with your topic list.