MrKaplan

Now for the other weird bit. If I enable secret mode, the website works fine.

most likely the bad 404 response was also cached in your web browser. try clearing your cache or doing a reload with ctrl+f5 or cmd+shift+r.

we had an issue related to incorrectly caching 404 responses earlier but that was a few hours before your post. it should already have been resolved when you posted this.

as this has since been clarified by @[email protected], i have updated my comment above and can confirm that it is in fact 0% of lemmy.world/fedihosting foundation donations that go towards the lemmy.ml instance rather than 0.05%.

i believe they were confused by the topic of this comment chain, as the main post is about donations towards lemmy development.

lemmy development accepts cryptocurrency donations: https://join-lemmy.org/crypto

lemmy.world/fedihosting foundation does not currently have an option for cryptocurrency donations.

i've banned all the accounts i could identify as part of this scheme from lemmy.world now.

i originally sent them a warning before i was aware of the scale of this involving a bunch of alts with different usernames. if i had known that when i sent the warning it would've been a ban straight away.

they replied to my warning pretending they didn't know about any recent vote manipulation, so they're clearly not interested in acting in good faith going forward.

yes, we have a matrix room for coordinated efforts against spam and other types of abuse, which admins are welcome to join.

once lemmy allows reporting user profiles directly this will probably become more likely to reach the instances admins of instances that are less actively maintained as well.

I've sent out warnings to 10 other users in the past few days about similar behavior already and also banned two users for this type of behavior. one of them appealed and is unbanned again.

I also had this account in my list of such accounts, but I hadn't followed up on it yet, as I figured I'd just deal with the top n users and then review it again at a later point in time.

i've sent them a warning about this as well now that they'll get banned from our instance if they continue engaging in this behavior.

and just now there has been a PR merged in the upstream repo after i spent some time to get a fork properly set up...

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] are you still reading on any of these accounts? are you planning to return to maintaining mlmym?

if people want to contribute code, they can check out the various repositories in the LemmyNet GitHub org to see which issues are looking for someone to pick them up.

the main repositories, by language, are:

• Rust
  • lemmy - backend of the application
  • activitypub-federation-rust - federation library
  • lemmy-ui-leptos - work in progress rewrite of lemmy-ui in Rust
• TypeScript/Inferno
  • lemmy-ui - the default lemmy web interface
• Kotlin
  • jerboa - the official Android app

additionally, there is a range of open source alternative web interfaces and apps that wouldn't mind contributions. some of them are listed here: https://github.com/dbeley/awesome-lemmy?tab=readme-ov-file#alternative-front-ends

ethical ads are virtually non-existent. when limiting ads to ethical ads it's unlikely you're getting even remotely close to bringing in the necessary funds.

people promoting ads are typically those who expect others to suffer while they themselves are using ad blockers. there are some people who honestly turn off ad blockers, but i wouldn't recommend anyone to do that for any site, as i don't consider the majority of ads ethical and it's also often used as a malware/phishing/scam distribution mechanism.

this is also a vicious cycle of more people blocking ads -> ads getting worse to offset the lost ad revenue -> more people blocking ads. this is what lead to the internet today, where the majority of the internet is basically unusable if you don't use ublock origin or a comparable solution.

this would better be asked on the original post by nutomic: https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005

nutomic previously also shared on matrix that he is not participating in moderation except for removing spam.

edit: commented this before refreshing, so i didn't see nutomic already replied

our foundation is in NL, because that's where @[email protected] is located, but the active admin and infra team members are distributed across the world with members in Netherlands, Germany and USA currently.