MrKaplan
@MrKaplan@lemmy.world
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 hours ago:
the implementation that piefed used to use made it trivial to link them to the original users, yes. this was an implementation flaw that could easily be addressed, which would make it less trivial to do so, mostly turning it into a probability assessment when correlating with other activity, provided that the pseudonymous identity is permanently tied to the real user.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update September 2025 2 weeks ago:
more or less.
you have 3 backend server components. scheduled tasks only run once, but there is not much performance impact from these. api you can run as many as you want, which is especially useful for rolling restarts. federation is currently the most cpu consuming part on our end. it can be split into multiple containers, but this will increase overhead and result in more total cpu usage.
then you have a postgres database, which needs to be managed independently. i haven’t looked into viability of postgres sharding, but you’d generally just want to run the full database on a single system, possibly with replication. i don’t think lemmy can make use of read replicas currently.
the last part is the default ui, which you can also run as many instances as you want for.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update September 2025 2 weeks ago:
Despite the image being a false positive and me flagging this to cloudflare not long after the block, we are still waiting on them to review and remove the block, 4 days later.
I recommend raising a support ticket with them to discuss this, ime only flagging this via CF dashboard does not result in anything happening for months.
We’ve had a few clear false positives, along with some questionable content that we removed on our end to err on the safer side, but all the review requests are still pending, including the false positive reports, and the URLs are still blocked. Since we don’t use image proxying, the impact of this is very limited to individual images, so at this point we haven’t bothered trying to escalate this. As of today we have a total of 17 flagged URLs, with the oldest one being from 20th of April, still being blocked.
- Comment on Do I have permission to create a very unsavoury community? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll bring this up with the team
- Comment on Are there any bots that we can use to mirror posts from subreddits? 2 weeks ago:
there is currently nothing I can see that would be a strong bot indicator. there are various indicators of an actual human using the account.
- Comment on Reports not federating from lemmy.world 2 weeks ago:
reports currently go to community instance and the instance of the user that was reported, other than that there is no federation on the lemmy side currently.
- Comment on I can't access this sub can someone help me? 1 month ago:
this is a bug in lemmy-ui. it works in alternative interfaces, e.g. at t.lemmy.world/c/إسلام.
the bug report about this was just recently closed due to a lack of external contributions to address the issue: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2207
- Comment on YSK: Lemmy supports custom emojis, your instance may have some. 1 month ago:
- Comment on NSFW community bug? 1 month ago:
that’s because SJW is still on 0.19.11. 0.19.12 fixes this by forcing new posts in NSFW communities to be NSFW. see #5649. the UI change made it in 0.19.11 already but the backend change was broken and not backported.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
please remove the phishing link from this post immediately. you can defuse it e.g. by putting it in a code snippet and replacing the dots with
[.], e.g.netprocesse[.]com. - Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 months ago:
lemmy currently doesn’t have granular federation controls. the only option right now is to defederate from mbin instances, but other instances might still announce your users’ votes to mbin instances. the more hacky way would be to also block federation related http requests from mbin instances to prevent them from retrieving user profiles, which is probably the most effective method that could be used.
piefeds non-federated votes are a user setting for the default value and users have the option for each vote whether it should be federated. see also piefed.social/post/982478
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 months ago:
as explained in this post, the original implementation of “private voting” has already been replaced with non-federated voting, which addresses the abuse concerns, as it’s then limited to just the instance the votes are cast on.
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 months ago:
it’s the software, similar to how you’re using lemmy right now
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 months ago:
no notification of a moderation event
lemmy.world has notifications for local users or users in local communities for removed content.
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 months ago:
piefed is a fair bit younger, the first commitin the git repo was on Fri Jul 28 02:07:44 2023 +0000. it has only in recent months started really picking up some traction with several lemmy instances already creating piefed instances as well.
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 months ago:
did you see an orange/white cloudflare error page or something else? i tried searching for it in our server logs but i don’t find it.
you may however have hit an outage we had for several minutes around an hour before your comment due to running out of memory on the host.
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 months ago:
lemmy doesn’t support subscribing to users, but you can subscribe to communities the same way you’d subscribe to other communities from other instances.
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 months ago:
what kind of error did you see and what did you click on? a link to a post?
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 months ago:
piefed doesn’t support animated media yet, iirc it doesn’t work in posts either
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 months ago:
pixelfed supports signing in with mastodon, not sure about others
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 months ago:
pretty much, yeah. different people, different programming languages, some feature differences, etc. but still the same content.
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 months ago:
nobody needs to move to another platform. both lemmy and piefed show the same content, think of it more like using a different client that also has different features. both lemmy.world and piefed.world will continue to exist.
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 months ago:
not that i know of. old.lemmy.world is a whole separate user interface, but a similar look can probably be achieved with themes alone.
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 months ago:
no, accounts are completely separate.
piefed does have some social auth support, which is currently also being worked on, but lemmy is not an auth provider that can be used with that. once social auth in piefed becomes more stable we will consider enabling it for supported providers.
- Comment on What is happening on Programming. Dev instance? 2 months ago:
i think the graph might not be fully accurate for the current hour? looking at it now it doesn’t show that significant of a spike anymore. i don’t see anything in our logs about federation issues from LW to p.d in the last 15 days.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 3 months ago:
I don’t see us going down anytime soon, and at current user numbers I don’t think there’s going to be a major difference in moderation workload with the influx of users compared to what we already have, but it really is not great for decentralization. We already try delegating the majority of moderation to community moderators where applicable, where on a lot of other instances the admin teams seem to be more involved in addressing community reports on admin level as well. For the most part we’re dealing only with instance level topics in the admin team and provide some additional tooling to improve report notifications to community mods. There are even various benefits from a moderation perspective when users are all local and not remote, as with federation a lot of signals that would allow various types of abuse are unfortunately lost. That said, I would still prefer if there were more stable and larger instances overall, while not having a single instance stand out as massively larger than any other one. Friendly “competition” is almost always beneficial for everyone involved.
lemm.ee being the second largest instance and the shutdown only being announced less than a month before is unfortunately also not something that gives people looking for a stable instance much confidence. I hope this won’t scare too many users away from Lemmy and that most will just find a new instance in the Fediverse.
Instance moderation and moderation in general are unfortunately tasks that can be very challenging at scale, even with just a few thousand users, especially when dealing with drama. It’s not really a surprise that there are somewhat frequently posts from larger instances looking for new admins, while older admins on the same instance are becoming less active. Even if people aren’t exhausted from their involvement, their circumstances in life may change, or they may no longer be interested in Lemmy as a platform in general, leading to a number of reasons why admins may not be as active as it seems when looking at the list of admins in an instance sidebar. It’s often a thankless job with a lot of things happening in the background to deal with spam, trolls and other issues, which most users won’t even see when done right.
- Comment on Is there a server that doesn't require allowing javascript of a million other servers? 3 months ago:
tbh it’s probably not going to be too complicated to switch to 1.0. the current api is generated from lemmy-js-client, but 1.0 api has an official openapi file. if there is a decently usable openapi generator for go that would probably not be too complicated to swap in instead and adjust the api calls in mlmym code.
- Comment on PrivacyGuides is testing ActivityPub federation on their Discourse forum 🎉 3 months ago:
already did. it’s the same person running the infrastructure, although moderation of mstdn.party and mstdn.plus is handled by someone else.
we’ve since been in contact with the person running these services and the material has been taken down on lemmy.one, as well as lemmy.one closing down in three months.
we’re still discussing in our team how we will deal with this going forward and will be posting a new announcement about this in the coming days.
you can read lemmy.world/post/29550945 for our previous writeup about this.
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 3 months ago:
the problem isn’t being able to see them in the thread but that you can’t open the user profile, so you don’t see if there are any comments.
- Comment on Vote manipulation bots using sh.itjust.works? 4 months ago:
essentially start by identifying the accounts posting links to the domain in question, then analyze the voting behavior of the accounts upvoting these posts. you can start by sorting out accounts that have legitimate activity and then narrow it down further and find common patterns that only apply to these accounts.
most of them were also created in similar time frames.
