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Cake day: February 10th, 2024

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  • we’re not running any modifications that would impact caching and we don’t have any custom caching logic. we’re only caching what lemmy/lemmy-ui return as cacheable, which suggests that the issue is likely in one of those services, however, i couldn’t find it in either one.

    it’s also rare enough that it’s extremely difficult to troubleshoot, as we see people report this maybe once or twice every few months but without any useful information that would allow us to look into this further than trying to find bugs in related code just from the general symptom of seemingly invalid cache.

    additionally, the impact of this should be fairly low, as, unless this somehow impacts private messages as well, no data would be returned that isn’t already otherwise public. with this seemingly “just” being a caching issue, there is also no risk at impersonating other users.

    nonetheless i agree that this should not be happening in the first place, even if it’s rare and the impact appears limited.






  • unfortunately it seems that people are trusting google search results to be accurate without following links.

    as far as I can tell this is a combination of reddit returning the subreddit creation date as the timestamp that will show up in search results yet including images of recent posts, which google will then use as an indicator of “the image exists on this page”. this will lead to a 7 year old subreddit with recent posts showing as the image being present on a 7 year old search result. if people actually follow the link they’ll see it’s just a link to the subreddit and not to an individual post.


  • are there actually this old posts?

    this seems like google + reddit being a shitty combination. i’m seeing fewer results but the two results i get that are 7 years old are just links to the subreddit, not to posts, which is likely throwing off the date on there.

    other reverse image searches like tineye don’t show any prior images, so it’s very likely that you’re just fooled by misleading search results.

    unless you can produce links or other evidence about actual 7 year old content please correct your comment.

    I have already commented the same on the other post.