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New User's guide (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Quick post to answer some basic usage questions that can throw off new users.

Where should I register?

The age old question of fediverse. The answer is pick an instance that is not right-wing and you should be fine.

https://join-lemmy.org/instances makes this very easy. Once you find an instance, just go to its /signup endpoint. For the instance you're reading right now, it would be: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/signup. Another great option is to use the lemmyverse which provides a lot more info about potential instances and communities, including a trust score.

Do I need to create a profile for each instance?

No! Each instance can access each other instance, unless it's been defederated because its admins are toxic (this is why I told you not to join right-wing instances earlier).

I joined an instance, but the community I am interested in is in a different instance

No problem. Simply add the instance domain at the end of the url endpoint.

For example, say you're in lemmy.ml and you realized that stable_diffusion is in lemmy.dbzer0.com. To access it, simply add @lemmy.dbzer0.com at the end of the url after the community name. So:

https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]

Or to put it differently, you can access any community, in any instance by adding /c/ (The requivalet of reddit /r/) and then [email protected]

If this doesn't work, then it's likely this instance is not yet federated with yours. To solve this, you need to search for it. See the next section.

But how do I even find the community I want to if it exists in any of hundreds of instances?

One option is to use the lemmyverse, as it's very user friendly, if you specify which instance if your home, it will automatically convert all links to your own instance.

Alternatively use the use the built-in search.

Note that if you search for an community in an lemmy instance your own instance doesn't yet know about, it won't find it. You need to give it more precice instructions to find it, which require the whole "address". To follow our example above, you would put [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) in your search field.

When searching for a community in a new instance, it might take a few minutes to take effect. The first search will not return anything, but if you search again after a couple of minutes, it should appear.

How do I find my community from reddit?

https://sub.rehab/ allows you to search for any subreddit and see if its official community exists in the threadiverse. You can then search for it specifically to subscribe. If you've already registered an account somewhere, make sure you visit the settings in sub.rehab and set your home instance there, so that all links go through it.

Community? Instance?

An instance is a lemmy server hosted by someone. it has its own set of users and communities. lemmy.dbzer0.com is an instance. You can access (almost) every instance from any other instance.

a community is like a subreddit in reddit, or a channel in discord. It's a topic in inside an instance. stable_diffusion is a community inside the instance lemmy.dbzer0.com.

In more plain terms, consider a lemmy instance like a street, and a community like a number on that street. When you write [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) you are giving the exact address and number to search for.

I keep seeing the same posts

In you're in a smaller instance and you've subscribed to communities in other places, you might have set up your default visibility to not show them.

Switch your view to Subscribed/Hot to get a similar view like the reddit frontpage.

Switch to All/Hot to get a similar view to reddit /r/all

You can store this setting permanently as default in your user settings

Tips and PSA

Also see

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37235684

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)

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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

The gooners are coming!

(I kid, I kid, I assume you're not (all) gooners) pirate captain laughing

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Ahoy mateys!

We are closing the voting on this topic a couple of days early as the result is already conclusive., Our threshold for passing the motion was for 2/3 of voting members in favor. We have far exceeded that threshold (see below) and have a good number of overall responses, so the proposed policy change has now been approved and takes effect immediately.

Our new policy on Xitter links

  1. No Xitter links are to be posted on this instance from the date of this announcement.
  2. Workarounds such as link shorteners and alternative front-ends that resolve to Xitter posts are also banned.
  3. Screenshots will still be permitted as per the overwhelming number of comments in support of this option.
  4. Exception: In rare cases there may be a need to verify the veracity of a Xitter post. If this need arises, then you may post a https://xcancel.com/ or https://archive.is/ version of the link. Please note this option should only be used sparingly and exclusively for fact-checking purposes.

We will begin communicating this instance policy change to all our users today.

Please try to be helpful to anyone who accidentally posts a Xitter link who may not yet be aware of the policy change, and/or feel free to report in the usual way.

N.B.: For the loopholers - by "Xitter links" we mean any links to content hosted on X (formerly Twitter). Alternative Xitter front-ends are also banned under this policy, unless exception #4 applies. Edit: The ban also applies to other Xitter-owned domains such as their photo blobstore (pbs) domain at pbd.twimg.com

Thanks to everyone involved for participating in the vote!


**The final tally is as follows: **

  • For: Salty Dog: An icon of two crossed cutlasses with a skull in the center in orange-red, black and white colors (2), Vouched: a minimalist compass icon. Orangered color (7), Deck Hand: An icon of anchor crossed with two staves in orange-red, black and white colors (5), First Mate: a pirate ship's steering wheel, orangered color (3), Powder Monkey: An icon of powder barrel in orange-red, black and white colors (2), Threadiverse Enjoyer: An icon of a doubloon with a black hole in the center in orange-red, black and white colors (1)
  • Against:
  • Local Community: +2.6
  • Outsider sentiment: Very Positive
  • Total: +22.6
  • Percentage: 100.00%

To break this down a little differently:

  • Home instance users voted 93% in favor of the proposal (284/307)
  • External instance users voted 97% in favor of the proposal (70/72 note: these are not counted, but good to know)
  • Donating and vouched for users voted 100% in favor of the proposal (20/20 votes).
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Hi mateys,

Please go to the following link to cast your vote on this topic. Votes will only be counted on the original post link below:

Thanks in advance for helping us to test the new dbzer0 governance voting system.

:)

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Hello once again peeps. As part of my work in categorizing and flairing users based on their registration application, I thought, "why not use the same code to have a constantly running script that checks for new applications and automatically flairs them. Then after I built that, I thought to myself "why not PM new users with their starting flair"? And, well, long story short, our instance now has a script that will automatically PM new users with a full welcome message.

The message will include the users starting flair, based on their stated favorite Anarchist, Pirate or FOSS Advocate and then will suggest some starting comms to join, based on those tags. You can see an example in the attached image.

I feel like this is a neat idea to simulate something like the bluesky starting packs. Of course since we don't quite have something like an onboarding screen, I can't finetune the suggestions too much, but at least we have something.

Let me know if you can think of any improvements to this process.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

E: solved I guess? This seems to be an issue across users and instances, so it must be an issue on catbox's end.I hope they sort it out.


Scrolling through the new 196 there are quite a few posts that won't expand when clicking as I would expect them to on my feed, some simply lead to a new tab (annoying, but they still load), but images from catbox, from different users, don't seem to be loading at all, not expanding in-instance, and not loading in a new tab either, the best I can do is open the thumbnail image in a new tab and zoom in at like 500% to try and read it.

I'm on desktop and have tried on a couple different browsers, and cleared cache and cookies and that, but that doesn't help.

Trying to figure out if this is an instance issue, a catbox issue, or a me issue, and is there a way to resolve it?

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Thanks.

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Really thought the old one was much cooler, does anyone else agree?

I mean it is what it is ultimately but I always thought the older one looked much cooler. While the new one looks very flat and plain.

What do you guys think though?

Old:

New:

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Yo, new subscribers. Just because we don't have a very demanding application, doesn't mean you can just ignore it. pirate captain laughing

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

My work on threativore and flairs was the stepping stone for something I wanted to achieve ever since reddit. A way for a community (instance in our case) to be able to vote on decisions, without having to rely on comment-votes and manual counting, but also without allowing every rando on the service to vote on your internal matters.

To this end, I have now deployed the governance community on our instance and it's live, let's say in testing mode. Please check the manual I just linked for more in-depth explanation of how it works.

As discussed in the previous thread, the initial plan is that only stakeholders can vote and open threads. Everyone who is supporting us with donation is a de-facto stakeholder, however An icon of a doubloon with a black hole in the center in orange-red, black and white colors ~~threadiverse enjoyers cannot open new threads.~~ Also after the discussion I decided to allow a minimalist compass icon. Orangered color vouching for others, which any supporter at the higher tiers can do twice. Vouching gives voting access, so this means you can specify other people who you personally know are valid members of the instance, and that will allow them to take part in the decision making, even if they're otherwise only lurking. Effectively vouching puts someone at the same level as a threadiverse enjoyer.

EDIT: I had a change of heart about this. I plan to initially allow both An icon of a doubloon with a black hole in the center in orange-red, black and white colors threadiverse enjoyers and a minimalist compass icon. Orangered color vouched to also open threads. If this causes problems, we can re-evaluate.

On a voting thread, the bot will maintain a control thread and refresh the tallies every 15 mins, (so don't expect instant updates.)

Currently most of y'all won't have voting rights, because ko-fi tiers will only be applied at the next donation or the monthly charging time. Liberapay is handled more often, but it requires a manual step on your end which you can do on your own already.

If you have any suggestions for MVPs for our instance, please do suggest them.

Unfortunately no feedback from any UI developers until now so as to add threativore flairs to the UI itself. I guess I have to learn javascript as well one of these days...

Anyway, this is only the beggining. I want to add more voting options, more automatic ways to nominate others for MVP. And I still need to distribute the affiliation tags (they will be visible when you comment in a governance thread). Eventually I want to even allow threativore to be usable my comm mods than just instance admins.

There's already a test thread in governance, so go ahead and downvote/upvote it. I plan to open a proper one soon, with a small decision I want to make. I wouldn't suggest trying to open a thread yourselves yet until voting-enabling tags are distributed, as the bot will just lock it)

EDIT: I decided to extend the voting a bit further. Now votes of local instance members who otherwise have no voting rights will also be accounted at a rate of 1/100 from a random sample of up to 1000 of their votes. This means that a vote can go up to max +/- 10 from local community votes and it's a fractional count (i.e. +1.1, or -0.7) which should make the local community sentiment an excellent tiebreaker, without overwhelming the people who are directly supporting the instance. Furthermore, I decided to display the "outsider sentiment" which is votes from non-valid-voting users from other instances. The outsider sentiment is only flavour ("Positive", "Negative" etc) and is disregarded from the total. This is just shown for reference of the outsider sentiment which I think might be useful.

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Hey peeps, I got a few things to talk about.

First of all I am happy to announce that the Divisions by zero will be joining the newly minted Haidra non-profit org. The plan is to use Haidra as the fiscal host for your donations to the instance and have things a bit more organized in the backend. Haidra is our own non-profit, so it should carry our values and avoid conflict with people who don't understand our ethos.

With the non-profit in place, I wanted to put into action a plan I had for a long time. To implement some sort of radical instance democracy. I don't believe in Benevolent Dictators for Life and thus I always look for ways to receive a mandate for my actions all stakeholders, rather then deciding top-down. Unfortunately the nature of hosting a service like this does not allow anarchist democracy to be practised, as at the end of the day, there's a sysadmin with the passwords holding all the power, but given that for this specific instance, that sysadmin is myself, I want to try and experiment with this.

As part of Haidra, the project itself (i.e. the divisions by zero) maintains full autonomy, so its own decision-making remains in its own community. However as a member project, it also effectively gets a vote in the internal running of Haidra. For me use your mandate, I need to figure out a way to receive it. To this end, I want to try and implement some sort of system to allow such democratic decision making.

Unfortunately we cannot reasonably allow every registered member to vote on instance policies, as it's trivial for any bigot to join and make sockpuppets and throwaway accounts to affect our policies.

So I want the voting process to be somehow run by the instance stakeholders, so I came up with the concept that the only people who should be able to take decisions on the instance, are those who have monetary contributed to the hosting and personnel costs, or who are putting significant effort into nurturing communities here and potentially in the larger fediverse. The idea is that if you've put into action your support of this instance, you should deserve some say on how it's run. That said, while I'm still doing most of the work behind the scenes, I still need to feel good running this instance, so I will need to come up with ways to reject people from the voting process if they don't match our ethos. I won't in good faith allow bigots to vote, just because they have money.

Now the trick is how to do this in a way that is manageable. While I have access to the accounts subscribed on Ko-Fi and Liberapay, connecting them to accounts in here is a massive PITA. Likewise it's not easy to easily remember who is contributing in direct action to this instance.

So once more the mad science lab that is my brain, has come up with some new ideas. First I have updated the threativore bot so that it now also provides a REST API on top of its bot functionalities. The REST API can now be used to retrieve extra user info that is maintained by the instance admins about users on our instance, that is not always relevant to the software (and as such is unlikely to be added to the API by the devs).

One big aspect of this update is that I can maintain user tags inside threativore. These tags are free-form and will allow us to mark users as contributors through ko-fi or other means. In fact, I even setup a complete backend DB connection to threativore and a webhook for ko-fi, so that as soon as you donate to the instance, you will be marked on threativore as a contributor, so long as you used the same email address on both (if you didn't, and you want to be recognized, please send me the email you used on ko-fi in a PM and we can override)

However, because I can't just do things only a little bit, I decided to extend the tags functionality to also have a key for "flair". Each tag assigned to a user has an optional flair key, which can be an emoji, or a link to an image. Currently those flairs don't serve any purpose, but I have already pinged some of the popular third party UIs (which we're currently hosting and I wholeheartedly suggest you use), to assist us in making those flairs visible.

In fact, those flairs are not even restricted only to our own instance, we can potentially flair any user from any instance and I have a lot of plans to make expand this functionality. The only limitation is finding UI developers to handle that end.

In fact, I have already created and onboarded some starting flairs for our instance. Some of them will be automatically assigned by the ko-fi webhook, and some others will be automatically assigned by the way you answered your registration application. Here they are:

Ko-Fi

These 4 are coming from Ko-Fi subscribers. The idea is to use them to flair people so I can quickly see whose votes would count in the democratic process. Initial plan is that every subscriber should be allowed to vote, but only subscribers who fund a lot can open new votes for mandates.

  • An icon of tankart of grog in orange-red, black and white colors: Drinking Mate is the tag for people who have donated in Ko-Fi, once off. The tag will expire after 2 months.
  • An icon of a doubloon with a black hole in the center in orange-red, black and white colors: Threadiverse Enjoyer: The people at the lowest end of the ko-fi support.
  • An icon of anchor crossed with two staves in orange-red, black and white colors: Deck Hand: The people who support significantly through the year (as it stands, each of them effectively covers half a month of hosting per year)
  • An icon of two crossed cutlasses with a skull in the center in orange-red, black and white colors: Salty Dog: The people who massively support each month (each of them effectively covers ~1/5th the monthly cost)

Liberapay

  • An icon of a doubloon with a black hole in the center in orange-red, black and white colors: Threadiverse Enjoyer: Same as Ko-FI
  • An icon of powder barrel in orange-red, black and white colors Powder Monkey: The people who support significantly through the year
  • An icon of  two crossed belaying pins and a hourglass in the center, in orange-red, black and white colors: Buccaneer: The people who massively support each month

Affiliations

The below flairs are going to be assigned depending on how you answered the registration application. If you mentioned more than affiliation, you will be assigned all of them matching.

  • A book with a loaf of bread in the cover  in orange-red, black and white colors: The bread book: Will be assigned if you mentioned an anarchist.
  • an icon of pirate jolly roger skull wearing a hat, in orange-red, black and white colors: Jolly Roger: Will be assigned if you mentioned a pirate
  • an icon of a wildebeest, in orange-red, black and white colors: Wildebeest: Will be assigned if you mentioned a FOSS advocate/software.
  • Early Bird: a parrot, orangered colors: Early Bird. Will be assigned if you registered before our instance had an registration application process, so only around 5K users ever got this one.
  • ADHD: A lightning butterfly in orangered color: ADHD Assigned if you specified you have ADHD
  • ASD: The ininity symbol in an orangered/white color: ASD Assigned if you specified you have ASD
  • Snowflake: a snowflake in orangered color: Snowflake is assigned if you mentioned someone who is neither an Anarchist, Pirate, nor FOSS (advocate)
  • First: a victory cup, orangered color: First is assigned if you were the first to mention that particular Anarchist, Pirate, nor FOSS (advocate)

Other

  • a minimalist compass icon. Orangered color Vouched: This signifies a user for whom a trusted user of this instance has vouched for. This is another way to be able to take part in the decision-making of this instance. Vouching will be restricted to tiers higher than An icon of a doubloon with a black hole in the center in orange-red, black and white colors threadiverse enjoyer and a star icon, in orange-red, black and white colors MVPs.
  • a star icon, in orange-red, black and white colors MVP: Is a flair which I plan to assign to signicant contributors to the instance in some way. Perhaps lifetime funding and/or fediverse presence? Perhaps we should vote on it :D

All of this is only the beginning of what I want to do here, but this beginning will be short-lived if we can't get UI developers on board. So if you're maintaining one of the 3rd party UIs in the sidebar, please contact me. Likewise, if you're excited by any of this and you can help hack the exising lemmy UIs (including the default one) for our instance purposes, please speak up and that would be a good ground for an MVP a star icon, in orange-red, black and white colors flair! :)

In the meantime I will use threativore to start doing some scripting to allow only-staholder voting, and we'll try it out soon.

If you have ideas and improvements about all this please post. If you have ideas for more flairs and way reasons to get them, let me know. If you have thoughts about how this democratic experiment should be structured, now is a good time to write them!

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Great success! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Hello again you scallywags, welcome to to 2025! After last month's post we had a pretty amazing showing and we finished the funding for the year with quite a bit to spare! Not only that, but thanks to our 26 subscribers, we are completely self-reliant as we have enough stable subscriptions coming in to cover all our costs. Extra thanks to the two Salty Dogs who carry ~40% of the hosting costs on their own!

I have now opened the goal for the next half-year and I'm fairly confident we'll be able to cover it easily. Cause y'all are excellent.

On a more personal note, I want to say I regularly run into people mentioning our little corner of the fediverse, and the reactions I see seem always positive from the wider lemmy populace. Almost nobody has much of anything bad to say about the Divisions by zero and it just gives me a warm feeling inside to see a notoriously contentious bunch as y'all, manages to have us in high regards throughout. I live for such comments!

Alright, that's all. Carry on.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

I created this account two days ago, but one of my posts ended up in the (metaphorical) hands of an AI powered search engine that has scraping capabilities. What do you guys think about this? How do you feel about your posts/content getting scraped off of the web and potentially being used by AI models and/or AI powered tools? Curious to hear your experiences and thoughts on this.


#Prompt Update

The prompt was something like, What do you know about the user [email protected] on Lemmy? What can you tell me about his interests?" Initially, it generated a lot of fabricated information, but it would still include one or two accurate details. When I ran the test again, the response was much more accurate compared to the first attempt. It seems that as my account became more established, it became easier for the crawlers to find relevant information.

It even talked about this very post on item 3 and on the second bullet point of the "Notable Posts" section.

For more information, check this comment.


Edit¹: This is Perplexity. Perplexity AI employs data scraping techniques to gather information from various online sources, which it then utilizes to feed its large language models (LLMs) for generating responses to user queries. The scraping process involves automated crawlers that index and extract content from websites, including articles, summaries, and other relevant data. It is an advanced conversational search engine that enhances the research experience by providing concise, sourced answers to user queries. It operates by leveraging AI language models, such as GPT-4, to analyze information from various sources on the web. (12/28/2024)

Edit²: One could argue that data scraping by services like Perplexity may raise privacy concerns because it collects and processes vast amounts of online information without explicit user consent, potentially including personal data, comments, or content that individuals may have posted without expecting it to be aggregated and/or analyzed by AI systems. One could also argue that this indiscriminate collection raise questions about data ownership, proper attribution, and the right to control how one's digital footprint is used in training AI models. (12/28/2024)

Edit³: I added the second image to the post and its description. (12/29/2024).

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It's been getting a lot of quality of life upgrades recently and it's sad it's not more known by lemmy users. It handles a lot of things better than the lemmy devs envisioned in the lemmyUI and it improves integration of things like loops etc.

It's become my favorite web frontend as of late, so I wanted to spread the knowledge around. All kudos to @[email protected]

We host our own instance in https://t.lemmy.dbzer0.com/ if you're from lemmy.dbzer0.com and if you're from another instance, you can try it from https://tesseract.dubvee.org/

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

One year ago I developed the first (and from what I know, still only) real-time CSAM detection tool for the fediverse. This has been in use by this instance and recently the real-time version was put in use by lemmy.world. Unfortunately the false-positive rate was a tad too high as this was still using my original implementation in horde-safety. But through our demands in the AI Horde, we've had to constantly tweak and improve it over the past year and thereofre we've had an improved checker for a while, but not used in fedi-safety.

Unfortunately I haven't had the time/motivation to update into it recently so lemmy.world pinged me about its false positive rate being a tad too high, I felt it was a good time to do so.

So now horde-safety has been updated and it should already be more accurate. The admins of lemmy.world already put it into production and they have the most demand, so they'll report back with their findings in a week. If this is not sufficient for lemmy's purpose, I have some other ideas for tweaking it.

And yes, memes and pressure on the admins is what caused me to look into it, but remember we're all just volunteers here. I would have looked into it if y'all had asked nicely as well ;)

Speaking of volunteers, if you want to support my work in providing tooling for lemmy and the Fediverse, feel free to send some support my way which covers all of my FOSS project work.

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Recently noticed a resurfacing of the image bug that happened back when 0.19.6 was released where random posts with image links wouldn't be detected as the images they are.

I've noticed it happening for several posts on the instance, here's a few:

I'm making this post here though and not in the Github issue since it seems to be affecting only this current instance. I checked and it doesn't seem like lemmy.ml is affected at all. So in all likelihood it's probably limited to dbzer0. If anyone else notices this elsewhere pleas feel free to chime in and provide post links (dbzer0 copy, the origins don't help us since this is a dbzer0 issue).

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Alo you 'orrible lot, another year is almost at end end. Can you believe we launched this ship one and a half year ago? And we're still going strong! Our instance keeps growing even with the "stringent" application instructions we have, with a good mix of pirates, anarchists and other weirdos joining. All according to plan!

Communities

Last year the waters have been fairly calm, with our three top communities continuing to get more traffic

  • [email protected] continues to upset libs whenever it brings up electoralism, while getting highly upvoted on everything else
  • [email protected] hitting the frontpage with almost every post and getting a regular mix of rule 1 violations and people self-realizing.
  • [email protected] being of course the most popular safe harbor outside of corporate shark infested waters

At the same time, our new communities seem to be finding ample traction

  • [email protected] allowing people to air their grievances and striving to keep mods and admins in check, in lemmy and out.
  • [email protected] fills in the gaps leftymemes leaves and provides a shiposting spot for anarchists while being unapologetically anti-tankie.
  • [email protected] continuing to bash disinformation wherever it appears.
  • [email protected] uniting and organizing all the image sharing comms together

Do mention your favourite new comms in the comments

Moderation

Generally y'all seem to be playing nice enough. We haven't had to issue that many bans instance-wide except for some dedicated trolls. The application instructions seem to be working quite well at stopping automated spammers and stupid bigots from getting in, in the first place.

Likewise there's been very few, if any appeals in our matrix channels and 0 [email protected] callouts.

Moderation load is manageable but do let us know if you think there's areas of improvement.

Fundraising

As always, our instance is completely donation based. We don't want to sell anything or advertise anyone. The plan is to avoid giving any incentives to enshittify this instance, or otherwise to give any ammo for anyone to claim trying to spread disinfo. The goal is to provide a truly communal space for people to express themselves (mostly how much they hate copyrights and capitalism 😅).

Our ko-fi page has managed to almost completely cover the server costs until the end of the year and anything extra will go as buffer for the next year. I'm also working on creating something official to enhance this whole process and hopefully I will announce it soon.

Given our costs and our monthly active users, each euro being donated, is currently supporting ~10 other active users in this instance, so do consider everything you donate as mutual aid to those needing a digital home!

(If you have any ideas on how I can reward sponsors to this instance, do let us know. I already offered custom emojis, but people don't seem to be interested)

Users

Just for fun, I decided to see what kind of answers people have given for our application. The tool to compile this took me way longer than I would have liked and I still have around 1500 answers that need improved parsing, but I'm out of time so here's what people answered for their favourite character

Historical Pirate: 447 (9.5%)
Digital Pirate: 1021 (21.7%)
Fictional Character: 479 (10.2%)
FOSS advocate: 1338 (28.4%)
Free Software: 400 (8.5%)
Anarchist: 480 (10.2%)
Other: 46 (1.0%)

Total Answers Analyzed: 4712
Answers matching multiple categories: 632

Top Mentions per Category:
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Historical Pirate: Blackbeard (248), Anne Bonny (40), Zheng Yi Sao (25)
Digital Pirate: Fitgirl (183), Aaron Swartz (173), Empress (96)
Fictional Character: Captain Jack Sparrow (215), Luffy (73), Dread Pirate Roberts (43)
FOSS advocate: Linus Torvalds (888), Richard Stallman (332), Luis Rossman (97)
Free Software: Lemmy (304), Gnu (30), Github (23)
Anarchist: Kropotkin (86), Emma Goldman (78), Chomsky (53)
Other: John Oliver (15), Tim O'Reilly (15), Bernie Sanders (6)

Epilogue

I'm very proud of how well this instance, and the threadiverse in general (lemmy + mbin + piefed) is going. This feels like a fairly active forum from the good ole days, which cannot easily be taken away from us by shitty admins and corpos. Here's to one more year!

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cross-posted from: https://dbzer0.com/?p=24321

I’ve had the ActivityPub plugin active on this blog for a while now and it’s been happily federating to mastodon for just as long. However it never worked on lemmy, and I always assumed it was just not set for it and was primarily focused on microblogging since lemmy was not even mentioned in the supported software.

This was until one of the lemmy developers contacted me, having been informed by a member of our lemmy instance that dbzer0.com was not properly configured for lemmy. I was perplexed of course because I didn’t really do any customization on the wordpress plugin whatsoever. I just used whatever defaults it came with.

Through some back and forth between the developers and me, I eventually started experimenting with the plugin settings, trying to see if any of them would make it behave in a way that lemmy could understand, until one of the options finally did the trick.

As a result, this WordPress blog is now happily existing as a lemmy community [email protected]

’tis a bit of a silly community name, but it works.

Unfortunately the previous posts on this blog are not retrieved automatically, so you won’t be able to see them or their comments in the community, but one can search for a blog url in lemmy and it will discover it and open it for comments. Any comments posted there should also appear as comments under the posts here which is pretty neat!

Example

So if you’re on lemmy or piefed, just visit its community from your own instance and subscribe to it, and new blogposts will appear directly in your lemmy feed. I love apub!

Many thanks to both pferfferle (the apub plugin developer) and the lemmy developers who looked into this!

leave a comment (from lemmy?) to let me know what you think.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

I don't want to be the judge here or anything. Just wondering if a religious sub belongs in an instance with nothing anti-science as a rule. If its fine by everyone and the admin, its fine by me. I'd just block the community. Just felt wrong to see a Catholicism community in local.

I won't go down voting the community or anything, we've got enough of those people here

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As mentioned earlier, I have now finished upgrading lemmy to 0.19.6 which should bring massive improvements to federations speeds and a ton of other stuff. So many thanks to all the developers who made this happen! I love FOSS!

Fortunately the upgrade took less than 10 minutes and everything appears to have gone quite smoothly.

A little while ago, I disabled mlmym as it was not working and someone in the comments suggested I re-add tesseract, as it's still under active development and compatible with the lemmy API. I had initially removed it at the suggestion of its core developer, but since it's still working, why not, eh?

So you can once again use https://t.lemmy.dbzer0.com/ to browser using the tesseract frontend. Let us know how it goes

Finally, if you appreciate this instance, please consider donating to its running costs. We're only at ~35% for covering our bi-yearly budget so we could use the support.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Expect 30 mins downtime or so. You know how it is around here...

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

This is not a new issue, but we've had reports from some communities that they are experiencing a lot of repeated downvotes from the same set of people.

This is how it typically plays out, using AI images as an example:

  1. A section of the lemmy user base really hates anything AI generated.
  2. Instead of blocking AI generated image communities, they down vote those posts every time they see them.
  3. The posts in those communities effectively have to overcome a "handicap" of down votes each time they are posted. This harms community growth and discoverability.

The admin team would like to know how our community would like us to handle this issue, since it isn't clear to us what is the best approach, and we would like a consensus view.

Some option for consideration:

  1. Encourage/allow community mods to ban persistent down voters from their community (note that we currently have no specific rule in place for this, so it is currently allowed).
  • Pros: prevents future down votes; essentially "unsubscribes" from the community on their behalf
  • Cons: could potentially be abused by mods who want to eliminate all down voters and "game" the system
  1. Have a policy of ignoring the persistent down voters
  • Pros: allows people to continue to express their dislike of [insert topic]-type posts
  • Cons: means that communities on topics that are not of interest to (or are actively disliked by) the majority of users will continue to be penalized in the lemmy post feeds.
  1. Leave it up to the discretion of the individual community mods
  • Pros: self-determination and community based approach (i.e. only applied when needed)
  • Cons: potentially inconsistent approach to down voters across the instance

Feel free to come up with more options, but these are the three main alternatives I could come up with.

We are interested to get your thoughts on the topic so we can come up with a policy for the instance. Please leave your comments below on your preferred option and the reasons for your choice.

Edit: apparently community mods can't currently see the voting breakdown in Lemmy, only instance admins can, so this adds further complexity to the issue.

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One of our hosts is doing some router maintenance which affects some components of this instance. As such expect downtime in the following range:

  • Start: 2024-11-08 03:30 UTC+0
  • Estimated end: 2024-11-08 05:30 UTC+0
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