I tried to comment in this thread:

https://fedia.io/m/news@lemmy.world/t/339242/Ex-Americans-are-suing-America-to-get-back-some-of-the

Wrote out a msg, clicked “Add comment”. The button faded and changed to “Sending…“ then simply reverted back to “Add comment”. My comment does not get posted.

#Lemmy is plagued with this behavior where you take the time to fill out a form & submit, and it simply does nothing and gives no reason for the refusal. It’s extremely frustrating because my effort is thrown away and I don’t even get to know why. If a form won’t be accepted, then don’t present it to me in the first place.

Now #Kbin is doing it.

Lemmy devs say the lemmy server is solid and that it’s the Lemmy web client that’s buggy and flimsy – which seems likely (the client is javascript after all). But in this case at hand I’m using a kbin client to post to a lemmy community.

Is the kbin client talking directly to the lemmy server, or does the fedia kbin server proxy the msg? I suspect the former because I’m on tor and #LemmyWorld is #Cloudflare configured in a tor-hostile way.

So #fuckCloudflare. If this is a CF problem then the Kbin client should be smartened to make CF threads read-only so people don’t waste their time trying to generate content.

OTOH I have some doubt about the Cloudflare-blockade theory because I am able to vote in that thread. Why would my votes stick but my comments be refused?

  • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.ioOP
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    9 months ago

    Is this a Cloudflare problem?

    I guess not. Today I was able to post there.

    Though there’s another odd behavior: my profile shows all my own posts except the posts in that #lemmyWorld thread. But I do get notifcations if someone replies to me in that thread.

    Every other Kbin user seems to be posting comments just fine.

    I don’t see how you could know that. If someone is blocked, there’s no metric AFAIK.