#indieweb 2023-01-31

2023-01-31 UTC
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khurtwilliams On the IndieWeb.org website, I get this error when trying to set/confirm my email address: `Unknown error in PHP's mail() function.` It does this regardless of which email address I set.
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aaronpk there is no email functionality on the wiki
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aaronpk i just found the setting to hide the email field so hopefully that won't confuse people in the future
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khurtwilliams Thank you, Aaron.
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[snarfed] [chrisaldrich] did you delete your IG? https://www.instagram.com/chrisaldrich/
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jeremycherfas I think chrisaldrich was having problems with being logged out of IG. At least, I saw something to that effect.
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[chrisaldrich] [snarfed], I didn't. I'm actively trying to recover it: https://indieweb.org/Instagram#Repetitive_account_lock_out. I'm not sure what keeps triggering the issue as I rarely use it for posting reading. Perhaps it's how I'm reading it via RSS or maybe using your backfeed tool, but I'm uncertain.
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[snarfed] ugh, sorry to hear it
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[chrisaldrich] I seem to recall this happening to aaronpk in mid-2022? Did you ever end up recovering your account aaronpk or figure out the issue?
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[snarfed] it's possible that it's the Bridgy or ig-atom browser extensions. definitely disable those and see if that helps
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Loqi friendly reminder [chrisaldrich], [snarfed], can you move the tech talk (RSS, ATOM) to #indieweb-dev to keep this channel more inclusive and inviting?
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[chrisaldrich] I'm not too worried about it in general, it's just annoying.
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[snarfed] understood!
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[chrisaldrich] Hopefully it'll pop back up in a day or two and we'll see what happens. Has anyone else reported issues with the browser extensions?
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[snarfed] yeah I think at least one other person
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[aciccarello] I've had issues with my account locking with IG-atom but logging in every week seems to resolve it
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[aciccarello] It seemed worse at first. I'd have to reset my password. But now it's usually just a captcha
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[aciccarello] Oh, I take it back. I just got an account suspension message when logging in.
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[snarfed] 😢
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[snarfed] if the browser extensions are this dangerous, I wonder if I should take them down entirely
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[snarfed] they each currently poll every 30m, I could drop that down, not sure how much it would help
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[aciccarello] What's annoying is that they don't even explain the suspension. All it says is "Your account doesn't follow our Community Guidelines"
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[tantek] ugh that's not helpful
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[tantek] can you share a screenshot to the wiki and we can add it to the /Instagram page as an Issue / Criticism ?
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[aciccarello] 👍 Added
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[tantek] thank you! aciccarello++
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Loqi aciccarello has 3 karma in this channel over the last year (14 in all channels)
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benatkin Nice use of a silo profile page :) https://github.com/forgejo
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benatkin "You've found us - well, sort of..."
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[tantek] Thats a good example of a manual forwarding notice, possibly indicative of a past /silo-quit, certainly a search/discoverability aid
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benatkin Yeah I'm thinking of adding one to mine. Not sure whether to go full snark or not. Also it irks me that I've quit twitter but not facebook even though IMO facebook is as bad or worse, because I'm into the video game streaming there.
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benatkin I could quit using my feed except for POSSE/PESOS.