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sunaurus

@ sunaurus @lemm.ee

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Not active on Lemmy any longer. If you send me a DM, I won't see it. Sorry!

  • Weekly thread - How are you doing with your communities?

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  • We'll get some more control over images when 1.0 comes, I will take a look at it again then, but in general the new user cooldown for image uploads has really significantly reduced the amount of image related abuse we have seen.

    @Character_Locked@lemm.ee please understand, nobody on our admin team is getting paid to moderate disgusting images, they are volunteering to do it, and it takes a mental toll. Also, image hosting itself is not free. Our donations right now are barely breaking even with server costs. So realistically, our options are not "current situation vs fully unrestricted image uploads", they are "current situation vs completely burned out admin team and costs increasing beyond donations".

  • Writing an article on the Fediverse and Lemmy in particular. What are your thoughts?

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  • Hi, there is no free speech policy on lemm.ee, we have very strict moderation when it comes to our rules. We regularly permaban users for breaking our instance rules. We simply don't use defederation as a moderation tool, preferring other tools like user bans, for reasons outlined here: https://lemm.ee/post/35472386

  • 600 more active users in the last few days, from 47225 to 47827 in two days

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  • Interesting! We've had quite a noticeable spike of sign-ups on lemm.ee as well

  • Active communities promotion thread

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  • Active communities promotion thread

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  • They are basically local-only communities on lemmy.world at this point, unfortunately. There is no federation to any other instance for any lemmy.world user posts on those communities.

  • Meta (lemm.ee) @lemm.ee
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    Why defederation is extremely rare on lemm.ee

  • [Meta] It seems that feddit.de communities are moving to feddit.org, is it going to be the plan for this one too?

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  • To be honest, neither Hexbear nor Lemmygrad has caused any noticable issues for lemm.ee. I recently compiled some stats for lemm.ee rule breakers by home instance, and as you can see in this post (in the "Administration" section), neither of those instances even made the top 10.

    In general, mods haven't complained about those two instances either, and the stats for community bans by independent community mods are more or less very similar. If any users creates issues in a lemm.ee community, then the community mods are free to just ban those users, regardless of what instance their account is hosted on.

    if fact I wouldn’t even be able to as my home instance is defederated from these instances and thus such posts would be invisible to me

    Preventing such situations for lemm.ee mods is actually one of the many reasons we don't want to use defederation as a moderation tool on lemm.ee - we rather use site bans etc. Too much collateral damage with defederation, especially when dealing with larger instances which probably have vastly more innocent users than problematic ones. We reserve defederation for more extreme cases, like spam instances & CSAM.

  • [Meta] It seems that feddit.de communities are moving to feddit.org, is it going to be the plan for this one too?

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  • Hey, lemm.ee admin here - it's actually hosted in Finland!

  • What was announced at the Xbox showcase that you're most excited for?

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  • It's a full new game that you need to purchase separately, but all the marketplace stuff you've bought for 2020 will also come with you to 2024

  • What was announced at the Xbox showcase that you're most excited for?

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  • We finally have a release date for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024!

  • Does the modlog federate?

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  • Regarding your question:

    Lemmy federation basically works by copying stuff from their source instance to all other federated instances. So if I write a comment on lemm.ee, other federated instances will get their own copy of my comment. They will also all know that the "authority" for this comment is lemm.ee.

    If an admin on another instance decides to delete their local copy of my comment on lemm.ee, then they are always free to do so (for example, some instances might want to moderate more strictly), but any actions they take like this are limited to their own instance - for the rest of Lemmy, lemm.ee remains the authority for this comment, so individual remote instance admins taking actions won't have any effect on any other instances.

    As for the original topic of modlog federation, basically it just boils down to this: just like with the comment example above, Lemmy instances also save a local copy of incoming federated mod logs. The Lemmy software does not yet have 100% coverage in terms of federating mod logs (for example, there are no federated logs yet for instance admins banning remote users), but this coverage has been increasing, and I expect this will eventually get to 100% (just needs more dev time really).

    Also, if some instance admins try to tamper with their mod logs, then other instances can still see the real history, because there is no way for an instance admin to delete copies of their mod log from other instances.

  • Does the modlog federate?

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  • Banning a local user from a local community does actually federate already

  • Does the modlog federate?

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  • Most actions federate, any exceptions which aren't federated yet are generally just there because the federation logic has not been implemented (but improvements are constantly being worked on).

    Generally federating the modlog is mostly just there for informative purposes. As in, we can check what mod actions were taken on instance A through the modlog on instance B (and there is no mechanism in Lemmy for other instances to retroactively remove or hide federated modlog items, btw).

  • Anyone have good ways to search through lemmy posts?

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  • That's true, it will only show content which has been federated to lemm.ee, so indeed if you want to search for more content than is available on your instance, you would need some additional tools for that.

  • What's your favorite profound quote?

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  • I'm a simple man:

    “What day is it?” asked Pooh.

    “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.

    “My favorite day,” said Pooh.

  • Copyright statement on posts?

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  • incorporated into the UI, rather than a piece of text in the post.

    How would other instances (or other ActivityPub software) know about it if it's not a piece of text in the post?

  • Anyone have good ways to search through lemmy posts?

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  • Anyone have good ways to search through lemmy posts?

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  • The built-in search feature is actually quite decent I find, is it not working well for you?

  • Iphone users of Lemmy, people say not to trust you on tech insights. What say you?

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  • For context I use all of these daily: Linux (servers + handheld gaming), Windows (gaming), Mac OS (work & general purpose). I used one of the first iPhones around 2008, then exclusively Android for 10 years, and then back to iPhones.

    Iphone users of Lemmy, people say not to trust you on tech insights.

    IMO, these "people" with such takes are the only ones who shouldn't be trusted on tech insights here :P

  • Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD - might be a reason to defederate from Threads

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  • Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD - might be a reason to defederate from Threads

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  • This "ads as posts" thing was one of my two biggest concerns with Threads federation. I really hoped I would turn out to be wrong about it, but at the end of the day, both Facebook itself, as well as big social media influencers, rely on advertising for their profits. For anybody looking to avoid ads on Lemmy, it seems like direct federation with Threads is not a good idea currently. On lemm.ee, "no advertising" has been one of our 4 core instance rules from the start.

    My other major concern was Threads having the ability to enforce their feed algorithms on federated instances through sheer number of votes on things they show in their feeds, but judging by what you're saying about the engagement, at least that concern has not materialized (at least yet).

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    sunaurus @lemm.ee

    I am extremely grateful to everybody involved with Lemmy. That includes you!

  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml
    sunaurus @lemm.ee

    PSA: Many Lemmy instances are currently experiencing massive automated sign-ups (bots)! If you run an instance with open sign-ups, please read!