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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by AA5B to c/support

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New user here, yes I’m looking for alternatives to Reddit …

I created an account on lemmy.world, subscribed to a couple communities, and even replied to a post. So far, so good.

However, it keeps showing me as not logged in. The weird thing is I still have my subscribed communities, but am not logged in. Every once in a while when I try something more than reading, I have to login again (then again, sometimes I don’t). For example, by the time I read a bunch of posts in a community to decide whether I want to subscribe, I sometimes need to login again to subscribe

I’m browsing lemmy.world from Safari on iPad, and should have mostly default settings. Can anyone help with explaining or fixing this behavior? It’s really annoying.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am working on a Lemmy client and have noticed that the Login system is secure, but it isn’t very robust. Usually, there is something called a “refresh token” provided that automatically verifies users and lets a user stay logged in indefinitely. Lemmy doesn’t have that implemented at this time, so eventually you will be logged out by your browser as a security measure when your cookie expires and you will have to log in again. For Safari, the maximum time is 7 days before you are logged out.

So, until Lemmy implements refresh tokens or similar, this will probably be how it is on most browsers and Lemmy clients.

[–] AA5B 2 points 2 years ago

I’d be fine if it were 7 days. I haven’t figured out a pattern, but it happens within a browsing session