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Fairly tired of the lemmy.world crowd and their.. interesting moderation style.

Lemmy hasn't implemented instance blocks yet, so here is my question:

Any scripted way to block-all for the LW bot-fest?

Is there any consideration of a de-federation with LW?

Or is the entire point of a more anarchy-leaning instance to have 0 moderation db0?

Fine with either outcome/method; just sick of going through every single community any time they spin up a new neolib/cia shithole.

Picture above: "Text with 'Top Hour' as the search function" followed by a comment from 2 months ago

I'm willing to give this my best college try to code around.

Categorizing a particular user's posts manually is far more work than its worth, but I also have a script for user-lookups that I might suggest adding as well.

This site logs me out every few [hours/days] after leaving the site. It's as if the cookies get deleted, but they're not.

Is this intentional? Do other people also experience this?

[Bug] Gifs don't upload on the instance

I tried to upload a gif but I get this error message when doing so:

{"data":{"msg":"Failed external validation","files":null},"state":"success"}

I can upload any other type of image but gifs always fail for some reason.
Does anyone have any clue what could be going wrong? There's obviously something wrong with pictrs but I'm not sure what.

@div0

Mentioning admins for visibility
@Db0
@RandomLegend @Flatworm7591

#error #lemmy #support #db0 #dbzer0

This update is more applicable to new users, however existing users might also want to check out the updated signup page. Note that existing users will have to sign out or use incognito mode to view the page. A copy of the updated text is included below for easy reference.

Our application process is mostly the same as before, and has so far proven very successful in screening out bots and other problematic users.

The main change is the addition of our Golden Rules to the signup page. These rules were already in place for our instance (in the sidebar), however we wanted to ensure that they are foregrounded for new users, since the sidebar is not visible on the signup page. That's the main rationale for the update.

We have also added a line asking people to ensure they verify their email, because it's fairly common for people to skip that, and then we don't receive their application.

If anyone wants to suggest any further edits or improvements, please comment below and we will take your feedback into consideration.

Thank you for your interest in joining our community. Note that this is primarily an anarchist server, but you don't have to identify as an anarchist to join. Please take the time to read the Golden rules before applying, to make sure our Lemmy instance is a good fit for you.

Golden rules

1. Don’t be shitty to each other. For clarity, calls to violence and/or telling people to kill themselves is strictly prohibited.
2. Follow the Anarchist Code of Conduct. This code forms the basis of all our moderation decisions.
3. No posts promoting cryptocurrency, blockchain or NFTs.
4. No advertising or self-promotion without prior approval from the community moderator or site admin.
5. No extreme-right-wing bullshit. This includes conspiracy theories, SovCit, Copoganda, AnCaps etc. We’ll know it when we see it, don’t test us!
6. No anti-science or pseudoscientific bullshit.
7. No Tankie bullshit.
8. No TERFs.
9. This instance is proud to be an ally of LGBTQ+ people and communities. If you're not cool with that, then please don't apply.
10. When going to other communities, respect their rules AND our rules when they are more restrictive. Do not give cause for others to de-federate our instance please.

Application instructions

For your application to be approved, you'll need to include all three items listed below:

• Please include the following words "I agree to follow the 10 golden rules" in your application.
• Tell us the name of your favorite anarchist, pirate, or open source advocate.
• Mention one public event or news story that happened in the last month.

Incomplete applications will be rejected. Profanity is encouraged. Thanks for understanding.

Note: Please be sure to verify your email when applying, or the application will not be processed.

Appeals process

If your application is rejected, you can appeal the decision in matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#div0-appeals:matrix.org and we will be happy to reconsider your application.

Follow-up from https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15792108

I've spent a ton of hours trying to troubleshoot why lemmy.dbzer0.com is falling behind lemmy.world in federation. We have a good idea where it's going wrong, but we have no idea why.

The problem is that once I receive an apub sync from l.w and send the request to the lemmy backend, it takes about 1 second to process an apub sync, which is way too long (is should typically be < 100ms).

We had a look at the DB and it was somewhat slow due to syncing commits to disk. OK we disabled that, and now it's much faster (and less safe but whatever) but the sync times have not improved at all.

I've also made a lot of tests to ensure the problem is not coming from my loadbalancers and I am certain I've removed them from the equation. The issue is somewhere within the lemmy docker stuff and/or the postgresql DB.

Unfortunately I'm relying solely on other admins help on matrix, and at this point I'm being asked to recompile lemmy from scratch or deploy my own docker container with more debug instructions. Neither of these is within my skillset, so I'm struggling to make progress on this.

In the meantime we're falling further and further behind in the lemmy.world federation queue, (along with a lot of other instances). To clarify, the problem is not lemmy.world. It takes my instance the same time to receive apub syncs from every other server. It's just that the other servers don't have as much traffic so 1/s is enough to keep up. But lemmy.world has so much constant changes, 1/s is not nearly fast enough.

I'm continuing to dig on this as much as I can. But I won't lie that I could use some help.

I'll keep you all updated in this thread.

Very active post on LW: https://lemmy.world/post/12747897

Empty thread on db0: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15749604

I had initially assumed it was a problem on LWs end... but other instances seem to be federating just fine:

https://lemm.ee/post/25817431

https://lemmy.ml/post/12793895

Just wanted to bring it to your attention. Not sure if this is on LWs end of db0's end.

It seems I am unable to view this post https://lemmy.world/post/10613192

on this instance lemmy.dbzer0.com, even though lemmy.world is not deferated.

How is this possible? I tried injecting the /post/10613192 into the URL: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/10613192 but this page does not exist

Follow up from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/14287556

Apparently contabo has a hidden limit on total amount of objects in the object storage, which they've now quintupled for me. Given our growth, this should hopefully last us a couple of years before I need to poke them again.

I just checked all the available frontends and it seems like none of them have some of the new sorting options available. Am I doing something wrong?

I was informed about something going wrong here and investigation showed that it's worse than I thought. My Contabo Object Storage started claiming it's full, even though it's only half-full. I opened a ticket to tell them to fix their shit, but knowing their speed, it might be a few more days :-/

That's what I get for choosing the budget services...

For the past couple of days I can't seem to be able to post on communities other than those on dbzer0. Just says error 500.

• My app isn't an issue, posted through alt on the same app. Also tried from a seperate app - same result.

• Not banned or anything from the community, checked modlogs. Also mod one of the communities I can't post on. [email protected]

• Tried posting on communities from several instances, same result.

What's going on here? Anyone have an idea?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13211160

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Source Code

New version was released, so we've upgraded.

Not much more to say, Have a Lemmy Gandalf

Upgrade posts are a good reminder to help us cover server costs. Currently we're not making enough to pay for the infrastructure. Click one of the images below to support us.

I am curious what can be done about the Lemmy.World era of botting corpo comments to protect their investments?

Anything remotely federated w/ LW has a massive hard-on for corporations (anti-piracy boot-lickers only added us back when we had the largest community in the fediverse), racism (you ain't american, you aint right), a desire to troll/argue in bad faith, and a general "fuck you, I have 500 accounts to down-vote with."

I myself have over 60 accounts on Lemmy.World; and because of that, I am 100% certain somebody has a type of SMM portal to scan for keywords and upvote/downvote accordingly.

Don't believe me?

Go post about Apple, Facebook, Tesla, or any other 1% owned entity, and watch which accounts upvote/downvote in less time than required to read the post.

I've been trying to create a post for a while now, but I keep getting the same error.

Check the release announcement here

Easy-peasy upgrade. Just one small hiccup as the reverse proxy needed to get the good ole boot.

Nothing more to say. Carry on.

I was just banned from [email protected] with the following modlog: Harassment. Do not come to random communities for your grudges, Use the rerport button when actual issues occur. I like ADHD memes, it wasn't a random community. But that aside, Lemmy is designed so that I can't follow this advice, because banned users cannot submit reports. So I am doing my best to follow the instructions as closely as possible, and submitting this post in lieu of a report. Stamets repeatedly called me a slur directed at people with NPD, which I have, off-community and defended it on dbzer0. MetaCubed also called me a slur after its status as a slur was pointed out. I ask for instance bans for both of them, because slurs directed at members of a marginalised group from outside are obviously in violation of the anarchist code of conduct. I would be submitting this as a literal report if I were able.

Our 6-months goal for 2023 was reached and exceeded, so as promised I have donated the overflow to lemmy development. Now it's time to open the new goal. So do chip in to support this instance!

Why can't I follow communities from this instance

I recently attempted to follow communties on this instance from mastodon and they all say pending. Does anyone know why this is happening? Is it possibly related to the federation problems of 0.19?
I made a github issue but I'm not sure if the Devs will help or not since on one hand it's not their software but on the other hand it seems like a federation issue. 🤷​

@div0 @db0

Hey peeps, I have upgraded to lemmy 0.19.1 which should fix any federations issues and the read-posts bug.

As I said, I have also replaced the abandoned tesseract frontent, with a self-hosted voyager frontend. You can find it at https://v.lemmy.dbzer0.com. This should allow you to keep your credentials extra safe, even when using a mobile device. You can add it as an mobile "app" via your browser.

Unfortunately almost at the same time I started this upgrade, we started experiencing some network issues which I've been troubleshooting for the past few hours and I can't figure out. So at this point I'm thinking this is caused by this ongoing OVH maintenance as my server do not appear under load, and the request timeouts appear random.

I'll keep investigating and let you know if the status changes for the better.

Update: I'm fairly certain the timeouts are due to OVH networking at this point, so I'm doing a workaround. Things should improve within 4 hours. Update2: Issue should be resolved currently.

Hey peeps, it was just brought to my attention that Tesseract has been discontinued. I was one of the few instances which was hosting Tesseract as it had some integrations with Fediseer but unfortunately it seems I need to remove it.

I decided to replace it with Voyager instead. I'm going to leave things up for a day or so to let you update your bookmarks, but soon t.lemmy.dbzer0.com and tesseract.lemmy.dbzer0.com will be removed and v. and voyager. will be added.

I have now upgraded the Divisions by zero to Lemmy 0.19.0. I haven't seen any issues, but of course you will have to re-login.

Please check the new features here

I have also updated Pythörhead to be able to handle the new authentication (as well as the old), so if you're running a bot, make sure to update your Pythörhead dependencies.

Now is also a good time that you can support the running of this server. If you just want to support this instance, please use Ko-fi and you can get a custom emoji here. If you want to support my general development efforts as well (Lemmy, Pythorhead, Fediseer, Tagginator etc) feel free to use my liberapay