Update 1: This is an issue with cloudflare, we are having issues with the account that hosts the site, we are contacting cloudflare support about the issue.
Update 2: we have switched s3 providers and images should be working again, older images may be missing, we will have to do a merge with the old s3 storage backup into the new provider, we plan to do this soon, but all new images will work as expected, sorry for the issues and thanks for your patience and kindness while we were working on the fix
Update 3: we have created a new ticket with cloudflare support with more information so that hopefully they take this issue more seriously.
For those experiencing issues uploading pictures, that is a separate issue we were not aware of until yesterday, that should be fixed now
EDIT: Federation issues:
It seems like federation is working now and the issues with photo uploading and admin settings getting 500 errors was also causing federation issues. Some posts were, to my understanding, in a federation window that has passed so the data is no longer there to be federated to our instance but future posts should federate properly. Please let me know if you see any other more recent posts that aren’t federating properly.
The problem seems to be that for some reason you're messing with image urls and adding https://lemmynsfw.com/api/v3/image_proxy in front of them for some nefarious reason, which obviously prevents them from working.
Just stop messing with people's posts and everything will work fine.
There's clearly something both extremely ill intentioned and extremely incompetent happening here.
This is precisely the kind of profoundly stupid meddling I left reddit for.
Time to look for a new instance or quit lemmy altogether, I guess.
It was... somewhat almost okayish while it lasted.
Nefarious or not, I appreciate you calling out the problem