I added some known issues with websockets / spinning wheel to the known issues post

I wrote my fist post about Lemmy.world. When June is finished, I'll also include Lemmy in the financial update on the same blog.

https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy (404 not found)

Found this on a reddit post. If someone has created an alterante to a reddit community you can post submit the link there. This might help with activity.

Any time I look at the lemmy.world logo I think about the ISIS flag.

The user count at the moment of this post stands at 33279 and continues to grow!

To take the #1 spot from lemmy.ml (36185 users and no longer growing), lemmy.world just needs about 3000 new users. Given the current growth rate, it should be another day or two.

We’re building something here!

Everything on here is awesome right now, it feels like an online forum from the 2000s, everyone is friendly, optimistic, it feels like the start to something big.

Well, as we all know, AI has gotten very smart to the point captcha's are useless, and it can engage in social forums disguised as a human.

With Reddit turning into propaganda central anda greedy CEO that has the motive to sell Reddit data to AI farms, I worry that the AI will be able to be prompted to target websites such as the websites in the fediverse.

Right now it sounds like paranoia, but I think we are closer to this reality than we may know.

Reddit has gotten nuked, so we built a new community, everyone is pleasantly surprised by the change of vibe around here, the over all friendlyness, and the nostalgia of old forums.

Could this be the calm before the storm?

How will the fediverse protect its self from these hypothetical bot armies?

Do you think Reddit/big companies will make attacks on the fediverse?

Do you think clickbait posts will start popping up in pursuit of ad revenue?

What are your thoughts and insights on this new "internet 2.0"?

I was just browsing the main page and looking at threads, any idea why Bitdefender thinks some pages are suspicious?

The first one with the infected, I think it was a post and it had some pictures, didn't click on anything, just loaded the post.

This is a helpful website for finding out where your subreddit communities moved to.

Someone recently asked if there was a neat way to see where all of the now broken down subreddits moved.

Some moved to Discord, some to Lemmy, and some are somewhere else.

This seems to be a good place to find your communities again: https://sub.rehab/

So some spam signups just happened (all [email protected] format e-mail) This caused bounced mail to increase, causing Mailgun to block our domain to prevent it getting blacklisted.

So:

• Mail temporarily doesn't work
• I closed signups for now
• I will ban the spam accounts
• I will check how to prevent (maybe approval required again?)

Stay tuned.

Edit: so apparently there is a captcha option which I now enabled. Let's see if this prevents spam. Registrations open again.

Edit2 : Hmm Mailgun isn't that fast in unblocking the domain. Closing signups again because validation mails aren't sent

Edit 3: I convinced Mailgun to lift the block. Signups open again.

I have so many pending subscriptions for communities in other instances and I have no idea how to fix it. Is there something that I can do, or do I just have to wait? I'm still a bit unsure about how a lot of this stuff works lol

Currently going through "the purge" and decided to record the tools I found here for others convenience.

Reddits own data request.

Bulk Downloader for Reddit

Export Archive

Reddit Manager

Power Delete Suite

What happens when we report someone via the "Show Report Dialog" shown in the post? Does the report go only to the community mod or does it also go to the instance admin?

I ask because I reported an obvious troll and I find it weird that he is still not banned.

Hi!

There is (used to be) this community for Japanese music on feddit.de:

https://feddit.de/c/japanesemusic

But now it seems like other instances basically only have local copies of this community and federation is broken:

https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]/data_type/Post/sort/New/page/1

https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]/data_type/Post/sort/New/page/1

Beehaw still seems to be able to push new posts, but they didn't get the one post from 2 days ago that was from sh.itjust.works, so it's not really working there either:

https://beehaw.org/c/[email protected]/data_type/Post/sort/New/page/1

On feddit.de itself, the community also isn't available anymore under its above address, but it still exists with @feddit.de added:

https://feddit.de/c/[email protected]

I'm not sure what's going on here, I couldn't find anything in the modlog and I can't tell if it was just deleted? But if it was deleted, other instances seem to be completely unaware of this and people are still trying to use it on their instances.

I tried to post to the feddit.de main community too, but my post isn't appearing there either. Of course that might be moderation so I'm not sure it means anything.

The sidebar image on the homepage, https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/913f672f-5d9a-48b5-af28-1a8fbb4f7bc7.jpeg?format=webp, is a 1MB 1080p jpeg that gets loaded every time I open the homepage (at least without caching).

Wouldn't it improve both bandwidth use and page load speeds to rescale that image to the smaller size it is actually rendered at?

Thought I'd share what I've found.

1. When posting comments - If you see the eterntal spinning, try changing the language (eg to english). I discovered this as when I tried posting to the same post on Jerboa (android) and it gave an error about that language not being supported (no languae was chosen).

2. When creating a community - if you see the spinning circle, it is likely that the community is already created, though no error message is shown. When searching for the communty, the description is shown, not the lemmy name eg. when searching for nde, you will find "Near Death Experiences" but not nde or !nde so you may miss it and try to create it.

What's the best way to find communities?

I can't seem to find communities. I've joined 4 but I'm not sure how I even found them. I think someone must have mentioned them in a comment somewhere.

Are there filter options in not aware of? I know I can search but I don't know what I don't know. I'd like to see a random selection of popular comments across all communities

I think it’s kind of funny, not sure if it was intended that way. Aren’t lemmings known for following each other, even if it is clearly not the right thing to do?

“I'll take my seat atop the Brooklyn Bridge With a Coke and a bag of chips To watch a thousand lemmings plummet just because The first one slipped” -Aesop Rock, 9-5ers Anthem

I'm 32, I remember using the internet before google was a thing, discovering flashy websites, hanging out on all kinds of internet forums and chatrooms, ebaums world, MySpace, new grounds... I rember when YouTube was just starting off and it was exploding with all kinds of content.

I joined Facebook in 2005, I remember when it was the talk of the town, it used to actually kind of be decent, all the content was from actual real world peers.

I remember when pages became a thing, and you could like certain topics, and then eventually it unfolded into something enterely different, I remember when it became New Facebook, and there became a chatbar. And then eventually it became a cespool of garbage.

I remember when reddit was at it's prime, I discovered it in 2011, I spent hours scrolling and engaging in discussion. The content was always new and original, every day on Reddit my mind got blown by something, this is before all the algorithms, and when upvotes and down votes actually dictated where your post would be jn the feed. You could litterally refresh your page and watch your vote counts.

Since then I've watched it change, I could always tell something felt off about it over the past few years.

Everytime I would google something on the net on my phone and click a Reddit link, I would be prompted to install the app. I tried it and it was shit. Once upon a time I could just open Reddit is Fun through the browser. Reddit made it impossible to do that.

Since discovering this place a few weeks ago now, I have been hit with a familiar feeling, and that is I am actually enjoying my time here as much as I did on Reddit in the early 2010s.

The communities are more grounded, there is no bot activity, my big long posts aren't deleted after posting them due to shitty rules.

I like how it feels free, and everyone agrees to just follow the rules of the community and if the post isn't quite fitting, people can vote on that, as it should be.

Thank you all for restoring something that was once great, I really thought there was no chance in hell people would get away from those platforms. I always told people we need a new website, a new Reddit, and I guess this is it.

Thanks to a comment by @[email protected] , I checked and saw that 'Federation debugging' mode was enabled. I had enabled that when the server just started (less than 3 weeks ago) and I had an issue with federation.

I thought I had switched that off again, but apparently not. This mode causes the federation to be done in the foreground, so your 'Post' or 'Comment' action will wait for that to finish...

This solves the most annoying issue, and makes the site way more useable. There are many other issues, but we'll get there.

I'm not sure where to post about problems in the platform, if here or at lemmy.ml but there's a problem that's quickly getting annoying and that's the fact that whenever I choose All communities and choose anything other that "Active" the posts constantly refresh themselves rather than refreshing when I want. It makes it hard to browse and read things.

This is in the browser, mobile or desktop.

I can highly recommend to delete all your Reddit Posts/Comments with the Browser Add-on Reddit Enhancement Suite.