No, it is not weird. Scaled, according to the docs, is like Hot, but less active communities' posts get a boost.

Edit: here's a bit more detail

The exact function to calculate the scaled rank is this one:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION scaled_rank (score numeric, published timestamp with time zone, users_active_month numeric)
    RETURNS float
    AS $$
BEGIN
    -- Add 2 to avoid divide by zero errors
    -- Default for score = 1, active users = 1, and now, is (0.1728 / log(2 + 1)) = 0.3621
    -- There may need to be a scale factor multiplied to users_active_month, to make
    -- the log curve less pronounced. This can be tuned in the future.
    RETURN (hot_rank (score, published) / log(2 + users_active_month));
END;

The hot rank is calculated like this:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION hot_rank (score numeric, published timestamp without time zone)
    RETURNS integer
    AS $$
BEGIN
    -- hours_diff:=EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (timezone('utc',now()) - published))/3600
    RETURN floor(10000 * log(greatest (1, score + 3)) / power(((EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (timezone('utc', now()) - published)) / 3600) + 2), 1.8))::integer;
END;

Do you find it suspicious that the mod of !nicoled@lemmy.world is downvoting us? Their account was made an hour ago, and they made it just for that community.

In fact, their account just got banned.

Edit: oh, look at that, another fresh account, 4 mins ago. @extension@lemmings.world, you're free to explain us why

you really want a nicoled community huh, are you perhaps the one behind the nicole spam?

So they most likely were set up beforehand, huh. I wonder what the motive behind this nicole spam even is.

The spammer is watching the threads here and is changing stuff accordingly. If we assume there are two spammers, the first one is doing it for attention? And the second one is now trying to scare us? To make people leave the Fediverse, perhaps? Interesting stuff. Though as OP said, the second one is most likely a troll. It just doesn't feel that "serious".

Oh well, this turned dark very quickly. Let's hope it is not the girl itself.

Btw does this mean the spammer is not going to spam any further or will they now start sending such images now. If yes, it might be a good idea to disable image embedding in the code for PMs for the time being.

Voting here doesn't influence your feed

It does when you use sorting algorithms that depend on it.

The bots are from those two instances as you can see in the screenshot. Furthermore, lemmy.doesnotexist.club has had dozens of bots since at least 2023 (2 years after domain creation. found via the web archive). Since at least 2023, the admin hasn't been doing anything, or even interacting with anyone. That account seems pretty much dead. But they keep hosting the instance for some reason. It is also a possibility that someone else indeed is using these two instances because they are "abandoned", but it is highly likely that it is the admin. It is very suspicious that the registrations have been open unguarded against bots since at least 2023. These two instances have been invaded with bots long ago, so defederation is still the right thing to do.

I also don't want to jump to conclusions, but I think the chances are pretty high that it indeed is the admin. It might lead us to whoever is behind the recent nicole spam.

Rust is a programming language.

Flatpak with more improvements to size and sandboxing could be accepted as the standard packaging format in a few years. I think sandboxing is a very important factor as Linux distros become more popular.

https://haveno.exchange/

Runs on the TOR network, fully P2P.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2631

It's coming in the next release

No. It has nothing to do with the software. Your instance is the problem. I guess this is your chance to switch to another instance.