I mainly use the Mlem app, and today I got a notification that I had one new inbox item. When I checked my inbox, I saw that it was empty.
Before I submitted a big report, I wanted to see what happened on the lemmy.world website. As shown in the attached screenshot, it too shows one unread item, but nothing in the inbox.
So I’m led to believe this is an issue with the server. And if not, then at least I have done my due diligence before reporting this to the Lemmy devs.
In either case, is there anybody here who could help me get this resolved; or at least pointed in the right direction?
I would get that when I had bots disabled in settings and one would reply to me (usually the Piped link bot). After manually adding that specific bot to the block list that stopped happening.
Looks like DABDA@lemm.ee was correct. It was the piped bot that replied to a video I posted in a comment. Once I enabled bot accounts, I was able to mark it read and disable the bot accounts option again.
That bot has long been a thorn in my side, both due to that Lemmy bug but relatedly because I used to include Piped links with all my YT ones but the bot doesn't(/didn't?) check for them before replying anyway. I've never created a bot but I can't imagine it's more than like a single line to do a regex search for the exact link it intends to post and aborting if it's found.