Husband, Father, Software Engineer (PHP, go, etc.). Lover of Star Trek and anime.
Looking for other things to do, such as writing, acting, voice acting, but not really finding the time for it. Maybe when my kids are a little older, I'll get back on stage.
Feeling pretty bleak about the future of the United States. #NeverTrump
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Well, I think I figured out why I got nothing coming in.
My inbox got backlogged. My fedi instance has one service that processes incoming posts one at a time. And it's running on my personal machine. It works fine for a single user insurance most of the time. It can usually take a couple minutes at most for an incoming post to get processed and show up in my feed.
However, it seems that about a day ago us.fedimeteo.com started sending me posts constantly for every single account on their server (thousands, maybe?), even though I'm only following one of them that sends only a few a day. So, my server was getting bombarded by incoming posts, and my incoming queue got backlogged.
I unfollowed that one account, but I'm still being inundated. So, I had to block the server and delete all of their queued posts from my incoming. I would do an IP block as well so it doesn't even reach the server, but they don't come from a single IP address.
I wonder how many other fedi instances are being DDOSed by fedimeteo.
If anybody has DMed me in the past day, or just liked/replied to my posts, I haven't seen it. There's something wrong with my instance. I'm not getting any new content for the past day, but I think stuff is still going out.
Sadly, the software I use is no longer supported by its developer, so it's on me to figure out what's wrong.