cross-posted from: https://hackertalks.com/post/8713785

The instances being used are

• lemmy.doesnotexist.club
• chinese.lol

Here is an example of the coordinated downvoting https://hackertalks.com/post/8692093

Of course its a controversial user who got someone angry enough to automated downvoting @DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today

But you can see every post they make gets 53ish downvotes from these two instances, plus some organic ones after a few hours.

Current downvoting Accounts

bot-list

LightIsland@chinese.lol MagnificentRow@chinese.lol FondKnowledge@chinese.lol SillyTowel95@chinese.lol HelplessDear@chinese.lol SomberBrain@chinese.lol InexperiencedCloset@chinese.lol NecessaryPerson11@chinese.lol ClosedEmployment@chinese.lol CoarseHair420@chinese.lol BurlyChampionship49@chinese.lol ZigzagNatural@chinese.lol QuestionableDirt@chinese.lol ProudDeparture@lemmy.doesnotexist.club JoyousDouble@chinese.lol UnitedPatience@chinese.lol MajesticArea@lemmy.doesnotexist.club SinfulConference@chinese.lol MoralDivide96@chinese.lol LeadingCarry65@chinese.lol FrillyOpinion38@lemmy.doesnotexist.club LimitedDiscount49@lemmy.doesnotexist.club ForkedScreen@chinese.lol MediumChemistry13@chinese.lol xXxLawfulGrassxXx@lemmy.doesnotexist.club VisibleSentence@chinese.lol AcidicLawyer90@lemmy.doesnotexist.club PriceySink14@lemmy.doesnotexist.club ExcellentBeach@chinese.lol VivaciousNews@lemmy.doesnotexist.club LankyIndependent32@lemmy.doesnotexist.club SpeedyFault@chinese.lol ConcreteHall89@lemmy.doesnotexist.club WorthyPoint12@lemmy.doesnotexist.club SurprisedAdult99@chinese.lol FlashyCrack@lemmy.doesnotexist.club MasculineBeing@chinese.lol RichWeird@lemmy.doesnotexist.club DryCash97@lemmy.doesnotexist.club AuthorizedChair@chinese.lol SlimKiss@lemmy.doesnotexist.club AromaticRoof78@lemmy.doesnotexist.club BewitchedInterview@lemmy.doesnotexist.club ImaginaryDraw@lemmy.doesnotexist.club PertinentGround@chinese.lol SinfulAssumption@lemmy.doesnotexist.club AwkwardAnybody30@lemmy.doesnotexist.club UnwillingRestaurant@lemmy.doesnotexist.club InsubstantialOven@lemmy.doesnotexist.club

A individual user airing their personal biases and manipulating lemmy isn't good for the community, regardless of how you feel about their target. This is a really bad thing (tm)

I feel like if this was in place, it would neatly solve the issue of people not posting because they can't find a fitting community.

A user or a mod spots an incorrectly submitted post, the user that posted it can then move it to a suggested "general" community, or a specific community, possibly suggested by those who spotted the error. A mod could also do it. Maybe just have a default alternative to remove that sends it straight to a preset general community.

I don't know how many communities on Lemmy regularly remove incorrectly submitted posts that are otherwise unproblematic, but if there's a decent amount it could be essentially redirected to be a bit of a unique and interesting, very varied content stream.

I personally think it's unfortunate whenever an otherwise decent user ends up being rejected for not knowing exactly how to fit their submission into the platform. Certainly a lot of that happening on reddit.

I'm thinking if this is practical and feasible, it could give Lemmy a bit of a new growth advantage.

Can somebody please tell me how lemmy implements auth? If I sign-up to an instance, who manages the login credentials for my account to validate login attempts? If it's with the instance manager, am I at the mercy of the instance to keep my login credentials safe? What about when logging in with 3rd party apps like voyager or alexandrite, are my login credentials passed to those 3rd party apps in clear text to validate with the instance that hosts my account.

Ideally, I would want the auth to be handled by one centralized authority that I can trust to keep my credentials safe, instead of trusting instance managers or 3rd party apps not only to store my credentials but to validate auth as well. Is that something that can be implemented for each ActivityPub software? As in auth for all instances of lemmy is handled by lemmy, mastodon by mastodon, misskey by misskey, etc.

E: I'm talking about user authentication, in case that wasn't clear.

E2: This discussion would be more suited on each software's development platform. But I will leave it here to get other people's perspectives.

The content on here went straight into the garbage the moment they were allowed back. I'm sure I'm not alone in demanding they be defederated again immediately. They serve no positive purpose.

Like modlogs, except you can actually see what is going on behind the scenes and whether the reasons given for each form of disciplinary action corresponds.

As far as I can see Lemmy supports hidden communities. But my community on lemme.ee only supports visibility public or local.

I would like to set it to hidden, to avoid its posts appearing in the feeds of users who aren't subscribed.

The reason is to avoid bothering users with my community posts which they probably don't want to see. A post already got a downvote from a user not in my community, probably because they didn't want to see such things in their feed.

Is it possible to make a community hidden from unsubscribed users' feeds on lemme.ee?

Every time I try to upload an image, I receive an error stating that my account is too recent to upload images.

I understand the mechanism, but I couldn't find anywhere what the threshold is.

Additionally, I noticed this restriction also applies to community logo/banner, which is a bit more restrictive.

Just figured I’d share this here for informational purposes.

(image is credit to my co-mod's active series "Concept Art for James Cameron’s The Abyss, by Mœbius")

Okay, let's see if I can explain this another way:

To be clear-- any post with a lead image previously sourced to Imgur content seemed to change around half a year ago, no longer showing up as an expandable thumbnail as usual, but instead just showing a generic 'offsite' link icon, which needed to be clicked an extra time in order to see the actual content. Example:

https://lemm.ee/post/40626407

...In which the popup image content still works in the body of the post, but not via the *lead* thumbnail, which... is fairly important for users browsing their streams, no?

Anyway, it just hit me that this issue now appears to be dealt with, at least on Lemm.ee! :D

CAVEAT 1: older, Imgur lead-sourced posts still appear to be broken in this way across the "LV," not unlike how image content was broken a ~year ago via the auto-added 'image proxy tags' by the Lemmy software. Point is-- it seems sublemmy-runners (community mods) will still need to fix such older posts by hand.

CAVEAT 2: having had some years of experience using Imgur as a pic-hosting service, I simply *cannot* recommend it if your intention is to create moderately long-lived posts. I could say more about why I'm completely baffled as to why some posts seem to last 10yrs+, while some are deleted within less than 6mos, despite featuring identical content, but what would be the point? (I would guess something along 'server-mgmt lines,' but who knows?)

CAVEAT 3: Image-hosting is obviously a whole big issue upon itself, and there are obviously MANY ways to do it, with perhaps the chief issue relating to image-permanence, so to speak. That said, if your instance is indeed Lemm.ee itself, you do have a nice, healthy 500k limit upon uploads here. And think about it-- if 'LE' or the LE's hosting site ever goes down one day, then isn't it the same, in the end?. I.e., there won't be one aspect of the site uselessly upholding the other, if that makes sense.

But I would think that's also a nice, motivating reason to get on board the train of supporting our specific instance. I mean, (as I understand it) our admin spends like US$200/mo supporting us via a colossal ~10 servers, and what do you know-- bad actors here forced him to semi-retire via too much relentlessly vile content.

I really feel like shit when I read about that stuff.

TBH, my personal lack of more useful action towards supporting our instance is rather embarrassing, frankly, and I hope to do better, but... ugh, I'm frankly pretty nervous these days, living on a rather fine economic line here, dealing with upcoming USA policy-making which could... incline me to... oof. Well, it won't be good. Anyway, thank you Sunauras, EllaS, et al for carrying on in so many ways. <3

Hey folks!

For the past few hours, lemm.ee has been bombarded with abnormal (almost definitely automated) traffic from a range of different IP addresses. This managed to overwhelm our servers, and we were offline for the past hour or so.

I was in the middle of celebrating my birthday, so response was a bit slow, but I believe we are recovering now, with mitigations in place to try and prevent further issues. Some of you may be inconvenienced by some bot checks when you browse lemm.ee, I am sorry about that, but it's necessary for now.

Sorry for the issues and I hope you have a nice weekend ahead!

Hi everybody, I'm new to lemmy and I was wondering if it is possible to change UI design of lemm.ee on desktop ? On my smartphone I'm using Eternity, which is perfect, and I saw a nice layout on desktop called photon but I don't know if lemm.ee support it.

Thanks a lot

I want to create AI communities from reddit and ask the community members to switch to lemmy.

The communites from reddit that I want to create on reddit are r/singularity, r/OpenAI, r/ChatGPT, r/Grok etc.

Which instance would be suitable for it? Is lemm.ee big enough to handle an influx of users? Or should I use lemmy.world since they're going to be global users interested in AI?

I've recently noticed that posts by users from feddit.org (but not on communities on that instance) have pics that don't load, and when I try to open the image separately, I get a connection timed out error.

These two posts are where I noticed it first. Is it just me?

Solved, thanks @Blaze!

In the "search" tab (4th one) there is an "Explore" button :)

Hi everyone,

I am completely new to lemm.ee and the whole universe around it (reddit refugee 😉) and I'm struggling to find new communities. When I'm logged in, the Posts tab in the bottom left (using the Voyager app) only shows "Home", "All" and "Local", but nothing else. When I'm not logged in, I see a huge list of communities, like asklemmy@lemmy.world etc. Could someone explain to me what's happening and how I could include these communities in my feed? Thanks!

When promoting lemm.ee I refer people to https://phtn.app/ because if I just point them to lemm.ee they in mass complain about how shit the UI is. (I'm not saying it is, that's what others say)

But saying join lemm.ee and then directing them to https://phtn.app/ also seems weird and dodgy. (I've been called out for this)

New user here. Trying to set up a community but keep getting the message that the account is too new to upload images.

How long until I can load an icon and banner for the group, and include images within posts?

Context

• https://lemm.ee/post/57374776
• https://lemm.ee/post/57104315
• https://lemm.ee/post/54833901

Hey folks

Just a quick heads up, we will be performing some database maintenance today. Expected downtime is ~15 minutes.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Update: maintenance complete!

The current mod has been missing for 2 years

Here is a link to a person volunteering to mod: https://lemm.ee/comment/18612411

Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j0xkqa/lemmy_as_an_alternative_to_reddit_using/

Specific comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j0xkqa/lemmy_as_an_alternative_to_reddit_using/mffevfs/

This issue has resurfaced again.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/22062206

Lemm.ee Conservative Community has had an Elon Nazi salute post up for two days now.

IDK about other people but it makes me feel sick to the stomach being federated with such content. I don't really have any problems with Lemm.ee as a whole but I feel like having an uncritical Nazi salute on the network goes against everything Blahaj stands for.

Obviously reporting transphobic comments to a transphobic mod isn't going to result in any action, so I'm wondering if the admins are going to do anything about it?

(if someone needs an image description, please ask)