Draconic_NEO

There’s missing history locally. I posted about it on the BBOARD and also emailed Membership about it. If you want to find missing content locally. Check both the remote versions and federated versions of local communities.

What the fuck? Why? Why block Blahaj of all instances? That really doesn’t inspire confidence in this server or SDF. I can understand blocking instances like lemmygrad or hexbear, but blahaj? Seriously? Why?

I’m glad they reversed it, but why was it done in the first place?

@SDF@lemmy.sdf.org Can you please explain? I really want to know the reasoning behind such a decision to block specifically lemmy.blahaj.zone, was it a bug with something automated? Something prompted by suspicious behavior from them? Please explain.

If you don’t want to explain publicly you may shoot me a message at matrix or to my SDF email. I just want to know.

We is members of SDF, and I don’t really believe that. But even if it were true. If their only merit to creating this instance is to have it be public facing without any of the anti-spam benefits of being SDF-Member only, then it probably isn’t worth it. After all their public Mastodon server mastodon.sdf.org has many upkeep issues and they don’t seem to care much about it. Social.sdf.org is well taken care of, because it’s made specifically for SDF members. This instance should be given the same amount of care and attention that social.sdf.org is but the only way that’s worth it is if they can be sure most people there are validated and trusted members.

It’s very easy, you just register on the website and login to the TTY using your preferred SSH shell. Can be Termux, can be Putty, can be a Web SSH, doesn’t really matter. It does require Shell access though.

To be Validated you need to Send at least $1 or €5 to SDF with your shell username written on the envelope or included in the transaction in some way. So yeah there is a membership fee but it’s very cheap.

It’ll also help with trolls for the same reason. It requires a level of dedication to join that most people won’t have.

I agree, they should freeze registration until they can get more people to volunteer to manage it, that is updates, maintenance, and especially moderation. I’ve never done maintenance or updates on a Lemmy server and I wouldn’t trust myself with something so dangerous, but I have done moderation and I would be happy to volunteer to help out in any way I could.

Another thing that could help is to make the instance SDF member only, by requiring the use of SDF email, or having your account be managed by the maint command in the Shell login.