lemmy.ml meta

Just to give everyone a heads up.

Over the past few days, it seems like things have suddenly gotten slower on lemmy.ml specifically. Loading other instances websites seems to be a lot faster for me. Haven't seen any one else talk about it, so wasn't sure if it's just me

EDIT: Huh, right as I posed this, things seemed to suddenly get faster. Not sure if something was restarted or something like that

Heya, I am trying to create a second account for managing a community of the same name.

Are user application rejections accompanied by an email?

Starting today, I noticed that posting a comment takes upwards of 2-3 minutes until it's committed (the "reply" button is turning round and round for a long time). Is there something wrong with the servers or some sort of moderation? Not sure what's going on or why.

Hello! I'm relatively new to the Fediverse, and still getting to know how it all works as a long-time lurker from Reddit. I've noticed that some posts and comments have censorship, where the b-word, r-word, and others are replaced with "removed" regardless of context. I was wondering if that is a setting I missed, or determined by being on the *.ml instance, or otherwise. Additionally, I've noticed that I don't have access to the same communities as my friends on *.world, and was curious if there was a list of differences or communities that might be censored for some reason. Any tips on where to go to figure this out would be super appreciated!

I know that lemmy's moto is if you don't like it here make your own, but for communities with big sub numbers and where current event discussions happens. banning controversial political opinions is not what I would have expected from the fediverse after having left corporate media, which could be excused for having to answer to investors and what not!

After I got a comment banned for what I think is nothing else but controversial, where it received quite the same amount of upvotes and downvotes, I took a look at that community's mod log, and there is nothing to be cheerful about. the same reddit mods have made it to the fediverse and are trying to turn it into the same hive mind other social media are, it is a shame it is turning out to this.

According to the modlog for [email protected], @[email protected] (display name: ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆) was banned by the instance admin @[email protected] on March 20, 2024 08:52:45PM for "spam". Upon examining the most recent 119 posts in that community (6 pages from https://lemmy.ml/c/worldnews?dataType=Post&sort=New to https://lemmy.ml/c/worldnews?dataType=Post&pageCursor=Pc99aa0&sort=New), I have found that yogthos is indeed the top poster in this past week, contributing to 19 out of 119 or almost 16% of the posts, with the second most posts coming from @[email protected] at 15 posts.

Just being the top poster over the past week or so doesn't make someone a spammer, if we examine yogthos' recent 19 posts, we can find that they vary in topics and sources. I hope that davel or someone can explain this ban or undo it if it was a mistake.

List of 19 posts, ordered by most recent: (Number of posts on each page examined: 5+3+4+2+2+3=19)

Vietnam seeks death for tycoon in $12bn fraud case

https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2761251/prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-for-mastermind-of-vietnams-largest-financial-scam

China keeps on finding ways to hurt USA Inc.

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-has-found-another-way-to-hurt-usa-inc-2024-3

Another Boeing emergency: Delta Airlines 737 plane makes emergency landing after one of the engines caught fire moments after taking off in Aruba

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/another-boeing-emergency-delta-airlines-737-plane-makes-emergency-landing-after-one-of-the-engines-caught-fire-moments-after-taking-off-in-aruba/ar-BB1kdWb9

Symbolism or Strategy? Ukraine Battles to Retain Small Gains.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/world/europe/ukraine-russia-south.html

IDF chief Herzi Halevi expected to resign later this year, Israeli reports say

https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-792885

Brazil's Bolsonaro is indicted for first time over alleged falsification of his own vaccination data

https://apnews.com/article/bolsonaro-brazil-federal-police-indicted-covid-a0c1f1dba71553096d0de0f4f39d4caa

The Attritional Art of War: Lessons from the Russian War on Ukraine

https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/attritional-art-war-lessons-russian-war-ukraine

UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/19/un-weather-agency-issues-red-alert-on-climate-change-after-record-heat

Lindsey Graham, visiting Kyiv, urges Ukraine to pass mobilization law

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/18/lindsey-graham-visiting-kyiv-urges-ukraine-pass-mobilization-law/

China is now visa-free for Europeans: Take a high-speed train to futuristic cities and fabulous food

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2024/03/18/china-is-now-visa-free-for-europeans-take-a-high-speed-train-to-futuristic-cities-and-fabu

What Might the US Owe the World for Covid-19?

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/covid-19-gain-of-function-us-research

Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Rio de Janeiro

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/3/18/photos-record-heat-index-of-62-3c-scorches-rio-de-janeiro

China's Global South exports surge in first two months

https://asiatimes.com/2024/03/chinas-global-south-exports-surge-in-1st-2-months/

America Pulls Back from Ukraine

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/briefing/ukraine-us-aid.html

Niger revokes military accord with US, junta spokesperson says

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/niger-revokes-military-accord-with-us-junta-spokesperson-says-2024-03-16/

Here’s How The Russians Are Taking Out Ukraine’s M-1 Abrams Tanks

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/03/13/heres-how-russian-troops-are-taking-out-ukraines-m-1-abrams-tanks/

Funding failure puts US at China's high-tech mercy

https://asiatimes.com/2024/03/funding-failure-puts-us-at-chinas-high-tech-mercy/

Chinese buyers cancel, postpone Australian wheat buys amid global surplus

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/chinese-buyers-cancel-or-postpone-australian-wheat-buys-amid-global-oversupply-2024-03-14/

I guess we now know who is all behind those Sinophobic anti-China posts online.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/14/24100984/cia-china-fake-social-media-spying

This occurs both within jerboa and through a desktop browser. The posts still exist and can be viewed through accounts on other instances. I still receive notifications when comments are made and can view them in my inbox. When clicked they take me to the post but i am unable to view comments on the post.

The only posts viewable on my account through lemmy.ml are ones made on lemmy.ml communities so im assuming its a federation problem. I also noticed that some posts are only viewable from certain instances but not specifically the instance that the post was made on. For example i made a post on [email protected] and this post is on my lemmy.ml profile when viewed through a lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, or a lemmy.world account but not when viewed through my lemmy.ml account.

Im assuming whether or not a post is viewable on my account depends on the viewers federation with the instance that hosts the community the post is on but this does not explain why my lemmy.ml account cant see its own posts.

Maybe this is just part of defederation and not a bug but i dont bother keeping track of who federates with who

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3976843

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3976841

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3976838

The act of cross-posting fragment discussion among myriads of instances

Edit: I was searching for a "meta" community, since this is a post on Lemmy about current Lemmy limitations... But it turns out that this might very well be off topic. I apologise if it is the case... I would gladly take suggestions on what community would be best for this post, BTW.

Since Reddit is now explicitly planning to sell user generated content for AI training. It got me thinking about Lemmy.

What license are posts and comments assumed to be under on this instance? Is there an overarching lemmy policy (there doesn't seem to be)?

Is it down to the user to specify, if so how?

Are there any downsides with adopting a Creative Commons or other copyleft license?

This might spark outrage but can we note ips to accounts so if they mass register, other servers get notified through federation and deactivate those (new) accounts or block registration at all?

The idea would be:

• I register an acocunt, my ip gets noted, I assume they federate immediately?
• i register another account on the same ip since no relog/isp change happened, my ip came through federation, i dont get blocked since this could have been a mistake
• i register another account, gets blocked for mass registration

The obvious way around this would be changing your ip constantly but its at least uncomfortable for an attacker.

Now comes the kicker:

• I start spamming, get banned
• I spam with another account, same ip, same ban reason on another server, ip ban gets triggered since they’re close in time
• ip ban shuts me down for 12 hrs? i will change the ip anyway but it slows down the attack again and makes automation hard.

Feel free to poke holes in this. i‘m trying to find solutions, not be right. But please be gentle, I‘m trying to help.

Someone suggested to post here about absence of moderation from [email protected]. As a former moderator on reddit and since many months on my own instance, I‘d help with deleting spam for the foreseeable future and general moderation if needed. Admins, feel free to hit me up. Have a good one.

I followed some popular communities from a Mastodon server ages ago, and then unsubscribed when I was satisfied that it was working.

However, lemmy seems to have some problem with the way Mastodon sends an 'Undo/Follow', so it's still been sending traffic ever since. Recreating it on a lemmy server I booted, journalctl shows this error:

WARN Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request: lemmy_server::root_span_builder: Unknown:
0: lemmy_apub::insert_received_activity
        with ap_id=Url { scheme: "https", cannot_be_a_base: false, username: "", password: None, host: Some(Domain("activitypub.academy")), port: None, path: "/e97071d0-54e4-4527-9865-e44cf1a55970", query: None, fragment: None }
          at crates/apub/src/lib.rs:191
1: lemmy_apub::activities::following::follow::verify
          at crates/apub/src/activities/following/follow.rs:78
2: lemmy_apub::activities::following::undo_follow::verify
          at crates/apub/src/activities/following/undo_follow.rs:66
3: lemmy_apub::http::community::community_inbox
          at crates/apub/src/http/community.rs:50
4: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request
        with http.method=POST http.scheme="https" http.host=38ec-77-100-144-83.ngrok-free.app http.target=/c/test1/inbox otel.kind="server" request_id=70c556c1-9f2c-421d-90f3-826e9d12879c http.status_code=400 otel.status_code="OK"
          at src/root_span_builder.rs:16

I reconfigured the JSON that Mastodon sends to be more like a Lemmy one, signed the http request with a new set of keys, and sent it via a command-line script. Technically, this works, in that I can use the script to subscribe and unsubscribe from lemmy communities. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with the private key for the old Mastodon user and lemmy.ml (which rejects the http requests). I don't know why, but it has stalled my attempts to unsubscribe from my side.

As you're likely aware, lemmy.ml has bouts of sending out an absolute firehose of info at times, and it's a waste of your resources sending them to me (who's resorted to 403ing everything, so they don't overwhelm the ActivityPub server I'm building).

So, if possible, can someone have look what a user from lemmon.website is still subscribed to (memes and asklemmy, certainly) and unsubscribe them please?

I can provide some credentials on lemmon.website if you require.

Thanks.

We'd like to add some more CI runners for lemmy jobs, cause we have very few right now. If anyone has any spare builder machines, pm me. It'd be greatly appreciated.

During the "big move", I subscribed to a bunch of emerging communities.
Now that the craze has died down, lots of these communities have been abandoned for 3 months or so.

Are these communities worth preserving, or do they take up unnecessary space and could be removed?

Just genuinely interested, I'm sure other instances have their own methods of handling that but was wondering how it's managed here.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/6423745

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/6400327

In case anyone is wondering, it's rqd2.

The definition of paraphilia is "a condition characterized by abnormal sexual desires, typically involving extreme or dangerous activities.", which can inclde pedophilia.

Don't be fooled by their rules, one of their biggest communities is a "MAP" community where they openly discuss pedophilia. They're likely larping as LGBTQ+ to make them look bad.

It has recieved 4 censures from fediseer due to the content contained on that instance

Not a good look for Lemmy to be promoting any instance like that.

You can see for yourself here

Update: A pull request was sent to remove the sus instance. It should no longer show up soon

Follow up on a previous post: [DISCUSS] Recent momentary outages

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I've been working on a simple opt-in solution, primarily for Lemmy end users like me (but also helpful for admins), to easily check the status/health of their favourite instance.

🌎 lemmy-meter.info

You can find the details of the implementation in lemmy-meter github repo.

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❓ @admins: would you be interested in adding your instance to lemmy-meter?

You don't need to do anything except confirming - I'll handle the rest. It should only take a few minutes for your instance to show up in lemmy-meter.

Out of the box it will send only 4 HTTP GET requests per minute to your instance. However that is totally configurable if it sounds too much or too little.

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PS: I wasn't sure how to reach out to the admins short of messaging them individually.

Tried to make on new account on lemmy... It did work in the end (obviously). Good thing there is the audio version to read it for me. (sarcasm, I know it's supposed to be for accessibility purposes. Still used it though)

I can see these comment to my posts in the notifications, from apps or website, but not in any other page.

Idk if it's just me, but lemmy won't let me attach images to posts. Idk if it's my instance or my client, but it's really annoying.

Lemmy, in particular lemmy.ml, is so good that I've got completely used to checking it out almost every hour to enjoy the content. Kudos to all the mods and developers ❤️

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Recently, in the past few weeks, I couldn't help but notice that momentary outages of lemmy.ml, ranging from a couple of mins to longer than 30mins, have become more frequent.

Is my observation correct? Or I'm just addicted to Lemmy? 😂

If it is correct, have we got any idea what are the possible causes of the outages? In particular, I'd like to know if there's anything that I, as a member of this safe & welcoming community, can do to potentially help ¹.

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On a related note, if the outages are of such a nature that may be predicted but not prevented (such as routine maintenance restart, load-testing or new feature deploy), do you folks think it makes sense to have a post here in "meta" at least a few mins prior to the action?

¹ I've got about a quarter of a century experience dealing w/ code and systems.

just asking

Basically, title.

I have a request for [email protected] on [email protected] since 8 days.

Dessalines is the only mod there, but I guess he has bigger fish to fry.

Some context about this here: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/openai-details-how-to-keep-chatgpt-from-gobbling-up-website-data/

the robots.txt would be updated with this entry

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Obviously this is meaningless against non-openai scrapers or anyone who just doesn't give a shit.