I need some #fedihelp: I set up my private #pixelfed instance (didn't want to add load/storage cost to a well known instance and my servers are idling anyways). I can follow my account on Mastodon, but get told "Preview not available" and also there is no profile pic. In addition I am told I can't cite the post. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Thank you!

https://mstdn.social/@[email protected]n.sh/116166751963815527

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I am pretty sure the issue was a broken regex in a fail2ban config, trying to ban requests to ".so" files, but not scoping the check correctly to the request field in the logs. It triggered on the referrer containing ".social", so it blocked many instances