overview for smorks

testing new email sending service in c/[email protected]

[–] smorks 2 points 2 days ago

test reply.

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All Together Now: The Suburban Development Pattern Doesn’t Pay for Itself (www.dearwinnipeg.com)

submitted 2 days ago by smorks to c/winnipeg

0 comments fedilink

Is federation working? in c/pixelfed

[–] smorks 1 points 3 days ago

oh that is weird. i had no idea that pf supported text posts too.

Is federation working? in c/pixelfed

[–] smorks 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

i was able to find shadow's pixelfed.ca account on mstdn.ca, albeit very slowly (although their site just seems slow in general when i was checking). i just searched for @[email protected].

i also noticed this in the Dev Tools. not sure if it actually means anything though. will check with chad at mstdn.ca to make sure it's not suspended.

Hashtags on Home feed in c/pixelfed

[–] smorks 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i found some issues with the same issue, so at least it's not just our instance:

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/5577
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/4485

in that second issue a user does say it was somehow fixed, but not sure how. will keep searching to see if I can find a solution.

Hashtags on Home feed in c/pixelfed

[–] smorks 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

yeah I'm definitely seeing the same behavior. none of the hashtagged posts from accounts I'm not following are not showing in my feed.

will continue to investigate and will maybe check the open pixelfed issues to see if this is issue other people are having too.

edit: I checked in pixelix, official pixelfed android app and web and none seem to show any posts from followed hashtags. weird.

Federation issue with lemmy.world in c/lemmy_ca_support

[–] smorks 2 points 1 week ago

hmm that is weird. hopefully things get better when they upgrade their lemmy version.

Hashtags on Home feed in c/pixelfed

[–] smorks 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

hmm that is strange. will poke around to see if i can figure anything out.

Hashtags on Home feed in c/pixelfed

[–] smorks 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

i think it has to do with how federation works. i believe it will only show posts for that hashtag that it knows about. and typically it's only for local users and any people they follow, but it doesn't back fetch any posts so it will currently be fairly limited. so as pixelfed.ca gets more users, it will get better and they start following more users, it will slowly improve.

hope that makes sense?

Smorks our hero is back! in c/canada

[–] smorks 6 points 1 week ago

😂 while I appreciate it, i want to give credit where credit is due. shadow does 99% of the infra work, and mp3 and otter were instrumental in getting the non profit setup. i just help out where I can!

Severance - 2x06 "Attila" - Episode Discussion in c/[email protected]

[–] smorks 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i think some people are theorizing that Mr Drummond & Burt are in cahoots, especially when fields mentions Burt has been with lumon for 20 years or whatever.

and yep, this season has been fantastic so far.

Severance - 2x06 "Attila" - Episode Discussion in c/[email protected]

[–] smorks 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I believe it was Mr. Drummond who broke into Irv's place and he found his notes & lists of severed people.

We are excited to announce pixelfed.ca, a new Pixelfed instance run by Canadians and hosted in Canada [edited, see comments] in c/main

[–] smorks 2 points 1 week ago

pixelfed is a fediverse version of Instagram. and no, not a replacement. more like a complimentary service.

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Announcement: Two new admins (self.main)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by smorks to c/main

5 comments fedilink

Hello All,

Our current admins have busy lives, but we want to make sure we're still on top of growing and maintaining lemmy.ca. As such we've decided to add two new admins to help out. Please welcome @[email protected] and @[email protected]. Both have been active with generating reports and keeping the site free from spammers and trolls, and both have experience moderating other communities too. We are confident they will help make the site even better!

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I found lemmy's official drink! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by smorks to c/main

11 comments fedilink

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Comment deletion testing (self.test)

submitted 2 years ago by smorks to c/test

4 comments fedilink

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June 2023 financial update for lemmy.ca (self.meta)

submitted 2 years ago by smorks to c/meta

4 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1711526

This is a little late, but I figure that it's better late than never!

For full transparency, I'm just going to give a high level overview of the financial situation of lemmy.ca through June 2023, when I started to accept donations.

Total Expenses: $30.00

This includes all hosting fees, including backups, etc.

Total Contributions: $1,503.03

$1,184.84 through LiberaPay

$318.19 through OpenCollective

All contribution amounts are not including payment processor and/or OpenCollective fees.

Remaining Balance: $1,473.03

I plan on transferring the remaining balance to the new admin team, whenever they are ready to accept it.

Thank you to all that have contributed so far, I couldn't have gotten the instance to where it is now without your generosity. I'm very excited to see what comes next and look forward to watching the instance grow more!

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June 2023 financial update for lemmy.ca (self.main)

submitted 2 years ago by smorks to c/main

34 comments fedilink

This is a little late, but I figure that it's better late than never!

For full transparency, I'm just going to give a high level overview of the financial situation of lemmy.ca through June 2023, when I started to accept donations.

Total Expenses: $30.00

This includes all hosting fees, including backups, etc.

Total Contributions: $1,503.03

$1,184.84 through LiberaPay
$318.19 through OpenCollective

All contribution amounts are not including payment processor and/or OpenCollective fees.

Remaining Balance: $1,473.03

I plan on transferring the remaining balance to the new admin team, whenever they are ready to accept it.

Thank you to all that have contributed so far, I couldn't have gotten the instance to where it is now without your generosity. I'm very excited to see what comes next and look forward to watching the instance grow more!

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New Admins, Server Upgraded (self.meta)

submitted 2 years ago by smorks to c/meta

6 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1044064

As you may have already noticed, 3 new admins have been added. Welcome @[email protected] , @[email protected] , and @[email protected]! There are also many more people that are helping behind the scenes as well. They have many years of experience moderating various subreddits, and I believe that they can bring lemmy.ca to the next level.

We have been collaborating so that they will be taking over hosting this instance. When I initially volunteered to take over this instance early in 2022, I was thinking it would just be a hobby project, and I really had no idea what I was getting myself into. With the surge of new users in the past few weeks, and potentially a lot more to come soon, I decided that I don't have the time or energy required to dedicate to running this site, and it just so happened that they were looking for a new home too.

@[email protected] and I will stay on as an admin while we transition to a new server, just to make sure everything goes smoothly, but I plan on removing myself as an admin once everything is settled. I will try and stay active here as a user, because I believe that lemmy and the fediverse can become something great!

I have also suspended donations for the time being, but thank you to all that have already donated. All your current donations will be transferred to the new admins.

I have also upgrade the server to 8 CPU's and 8 GB, since it seemed to be struggling with an influx of new users tonight, so sorry about the brief downtime!

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to ask!

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New Admins, Server Upgraded (self.main)

submitted 2 years ago by smorks to c/main

33 comments fedilink

As you may have already noticed, 3 new admins have been added. Welcome @[email protected] , @[email protected] , and @[email protected]! There are also many more people that are helping behind the scenes as well. They have many years of experience moderating various subreddits, and I believe that they can bring lemmy.ca to the next level.

We have been collaborating so that they will be taking over hosting this instance. When I initially volunteered to take over this instance early in 2022, I was thinking it would just be a hobby project, and I really had no idea what I was getting myself into. With the surge of new users in the past few weeks, and potentially a lot more to come soon, I decided that I don't have the time or energy required to dedicate to running this site, and it just so happened that they were looking for a new home too.

@[email protected] and I will stay on as an admin while we transition to a new server, just to make sure everything goes smoothly, but I plan on removing myself as an admin once everything is settled. I will try and stay active here as a user, because I believe that lemmy and the fediverse can become something great!

I have also suspended donations for the time being, but thank you to all that have already donated. All your current donations will be transferred to the new admins.

I have also upgrade the server to 8 CPU's and 8 GB, since it seemed to be struggling with an influx of new users tonight, so sorry about the brief downtime!

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to ask!

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Winnipeg Jets trade Pierre-Luc Dubois to Los Angeles Kings (globalnews.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by smorks to c/[email protected]

3 comments fedilink

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Preemptive Blocking of Instances with high potential bot counts (self.main)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by smorks to c/main

12 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/919010

I have taken the advice from this post and blocked all instances with > 10,000 users, from this list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRthB7RtY4Rr0t5fhVKaliJnwSmptMc5oJi7uha_OBcF4wpu4eElxAxNzaCqjlq6NsOE9GpgSnMzZ2x/pubhtml

I will continue to monitor things and will make another announcement if more blocks are necessary.

If anybody is interested in getting a cleaned up instance federated again, feel free to contact me over DM (if you’re currently blocked, you can contact me on Matrix: @smorks:40to.ca).

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Preemptive Blocking of Instances with high potential bot counts (self.meta)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by smorks to c/meta

12 comments fedilink

I have taken the advice from this post and blocked all instances with > 10,000 users, from this list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRthB7RtY4Rr0t5fhVKaliJnwSmptMc5oJi7uha_OBcF4wpu4eElxAxNzaCqjlq6NsOE9GpgSnMzZ2x/pubhtml

I will continue to monitor things and will make another announcement if more blocks are necessary.

If anybody is interested in getting a cleaned up instance federated again, feel free to contact me over DM (if you’re currently blocked, you can contact me on Matrix: @smorks:40to.ca).

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lemmy.ca updated to 0.18.0 (self.meta)

submitted 2 years ago by smorks to c/meta

6 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/880950

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