Most common cause is people changing their language settings in their profile. It’s a daily occurrence. The app really needs to tell people “25 messages not displayed because you are only viewing in Spanish”.

I haven’t seen a feature for that yet, maybe I missed it? If indeed it is absent, I suggest !lemmywishlist@lemmy.ml - posting this

Lemmy federation, server to server, is having a number of problems. Comments and postings aren’t always getting copied over to all the servers who have subscribers. For over a week, Lemmy.ml has had regular nginx 500 error codes on the front page, sometimes you have to refresh 3 or 4 times to get a page to load.

Growing pains.

When subscribing to communities it occasionally says “Subscribe Pending”

Your specific issue is documented and I opened a fresh issue on it today: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3203

The interesting thing about Snowden to me after 10 years is how few times I see the public think about how low-level staff with hardware-level access can bypass all command and control decisions. He was a contractor who just wholesale scooped data off the servers. Nearly 10 years later… Jack Teixeira leaks documents because he has server access to documents outside his immediate need too.

I think a lot of organizations really don’t see how vulnerable they are to deliberate attacks and theft - if the NSA can’t protect their data 10 years ago, do you really think your mobile phone network provider or these VPN companies are not subject to internal staff selling off data, etc?