Pawb.Social General Lounge

I was thinking of marking an account and start using Matrix, but I wanted to see if there were any plans for a pawb social server in the future. I don't mind waiting a bit if it is in the pipeline but if it's a definitive no, then I know to research the other servers/admins. Thanks for providing this amazing space! I just want to see it grow!

So since I joined this Lemmy journey, I've started looking at other options and found Pixelfed. Does anyone here use it? How is the service? And can you link with Lemmy?

I saw it also uses the activitypub protocol, so I'm just trying to see how far this protocol reaches.

Saw this on https://ttrpg.network/ , who are serving it under https://old.ttrpg.network/ . Figured I'd signal boost it here in case it's of interest to anyone.

Seems to live at https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym , and if you log in it has full access to your account, so stay safe.

I know that taking the instance offline isn’t an easy decision but it was the right choice to make until the exploit was patched.

For those who weren’t aware, from my understanding there was an exploit with custom emoji on the Lemmy front end that allowed a malicious script to be ran, which was stealing login cookies. This started on Lemmy(dot)world.

This seemed to have been patched this morning.

From what I’ve seen it didn’t seem to propagate through federated comments but never can be too careful.

Thanks crash and admin/mod team for keeping us safe 🙂

As a followup to the Beehaw question Yote.zip had yesterday, are there any instances that have currently banned us after we got unbanned from Beehaw? I know the other major furry instance has gotten itself banned from at least one major instance, but I'm unsure how in good standing we currently are.

Noticed I haven't seen any Beehaw posts recently, and then saw that we are on Beehaw's instance banlist. Anyone know what informed that decision?

We're not open signups and we don't even host any mildly-questionable content.

I've been wondering about this since I joined lol.

Hiya. This isn't anything to do with pawb.social's operation specifically, but rather the entire Lemmyverse. With the release of v0.18.0, it seems like a regression was introduced and Lemmy's ActivityPub implementation is now a bit broken. Federation between servers is very dodgy, and may have something to do with different versions of Lemmy communicating, e.g. 0.17.4 <-> 0.18.0.

Edits, posts, upvotes/downvotes, etc are not very consistently federated, and I've noticed that there's been a lot of dropped interactions. Of particular note, Kbin hasn't received any of my activity in 4-5 days now, and Beehaw seems to also be struggling to receive or send activity.

More information about this regression is available here:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3101#issuecomment-1599081227

https://github.com/LemmyNet/activitypub-federation-rust/pull/52

With 0.17.4 being a websocket nightmare, 0.18.0 not having captcha, and interactions being frequently dropped, we're sort of in a state of chaos at the moment.