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Also outs your report publicly, nice !

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[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And Lemmy has an issue with it's backend implementation which sometimes causes multiple copies of a comment being posted without the posters knowledge.

It then gets flagged as spam and the poster banned. Ask me how I know.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I searched for the issue when it happened to me and saw a bug report for it with the Lemmy devs confirming.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

how do you know?

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

how do you know?

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As someone who implement a Lemmy client it might be a client side problem. If the server is struggling you will time out when sending the comment. If the client side has any sort of retry logic it will send the comment again. This can cause the comment to be posted multiple times. There might be a bug on the server as well but I know for sure it can be caused by the client.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's what you are describing, and it's not a client problem. It's impossible for a client to solve. You can't tell whether a timed out request succeeded or not.

Idempotent network requests are a standard feature of many APIs - sending the same request multiple times should result in only one action being performed, but Lemmy doesn't support them yet.

So yes, it's "caused" by retries, but the bug is that the backend doesn't properly support retries. Clients don't do anything wrong.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

how do you know?

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