(EDIT: Lemmygrad seems to work again, as of 22:20 UTC on 2022-03-24. The question remains on what to do about it, if/when it happens again…)

I am having problems accessing any page on lemmygrad.ml. First, there is a very long time loading it, then there is the error:

404: FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/community/list?type_=Local&sort=Hot&limit=6&auth=[a lot of letters and numbers] reason: Unexpected end of JSON input

I also encountered the 504 Gateway error quite often today.

The errors don’t happen every time, occassionally I can load a page, but rarely enough that I can’t use Lemmygrad.

Lemmygrad used to work fine before, and lemmy.ml seems to work still, so that would be my only explanation… Anyone else experiencing this? And is there anything that can be done about it?

  • southerntofu
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    3 years ago

    some of the stuff spewed out particularly in the last 30 days seems like it could only come from a military grade troll-factory

    Yup that’s it. Just like western empires have their TV shows and NGOs spewing propaganda, Putin has an army of half-stalinist/half-neonazi online trolls, some of whom are paid as part of such “troll factories”. It’s funny how some “leftists” think they’re fighting for the little guy when they’ve just sided with a different bully without realizing it :-)

    because there are days this place I come to learn about the left feels…the opposite

    Yeah the internet often feels like a very bad place for political organization. Get together with some friends and start conspiring: steal from your local supermarket to redistribute resources, organize a cantine/concert to raise funds for self-organized projects, open a zine/book library with radical reads, etc… Just be open and radial and show practical support to people who are also struggling for radical change, you’ll produce more meaningful results than any of these internet trolls will ever <3