Having trouble with hexbear on Firefox, my clean chrome build, and mobile Firefox. 504 gateway error. However my app (Boost) seems to work fine and I see many of you are still posting and I imagine from web. What is my issue? Any advice or debug steps would be appreciated because I much prefer desktop browsing. I tried deleting site data. Issue has persisted since last night.
Alexandrite is run by a “software engineer from Minnesota” who goes by sheodox (personal site, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Github). You can find the source code here. I have logged into Alexandrite without issue before and interacted with the owner to boot. I won’t say that he has the best politics — he strikes me as a liberal-progressive type — but I don’t think he’s any sort of malicious anti-communist or anything, more just a politically incoherent average Joe.
Alternate frontends for Lemmy will be safe to log into as a rule, as they’re generally FOSS and Lemmy is such a niche platform that there isn’t really much of a point in harvesting people’s login credentials anyways. Still, it is a good idea to be cautious.