Pawb.Social Announcements crashdoom • 13 hours ago • 90%

We’re aware of an issue affecting our Lemmy service (pawb.social) that seems to be causing users to be randomly logged out. We believe we’ve identified the issue thanks to a bug fix in a newer version of the UI code. We’re needing to verify there are no other breaking changes for the upgrade process, and expect to perform maintenance this Sunday, Sept 22nd at Noon US Mountain Time (https://everytimezone.com/s/7abd4955). We’ll provide an update tomorrow to confirm the maintenance window. Thank you to everyone who brought this to our attention and we apologize for the inconvenience.

Pawb.Social Announcements crashdoom • 8 months ago • 100%

**tl;dr summary** furry.engineer and pawb.fun will be down for several hours this evening (5 PM Mountain Time onward) as we migrate data from the cloud to local storage. We'll post updates via our announcements channel at https://t.me/pawbsocial. ---- In order to reduce costs and expand our storage pool, we'll be migrating data from our existing Cloudflare R2 buckets to local replicated network storage, and from Proxmox-based LXC containers to Kubernetes pods. Currently, according to Mastodon, we're using about 1 TB of media storage, but according to Cloudflare, we're using near 6 TB. This appears to be due to Cloudflare R2's implementation of the underlying S3 protocol that Mastodon uses for cloud-based media storage, which is preventing Mastodon from properly cleaning up no longer used files. As part of the move, we'll be creating / using new Docker-based images for Glitch-SOC (the fork of Mastodon we use) and hooking that up to a dedicated set of database nodes and replicated storage through Longhorn. This should allow us to seamlessly move the instances from one Kubernetes node to another for performing routine hardware and system maintenance without taking the instances offline. We're planning to roll out the changes in several stages: 1. Taking furry.engineer and pawb.fun down for maintenance to prevent additional media being created. 2. Initiating a transfer from R2 to the new local replicated network storage for **locally generated** user content first, then remote media. (This will happen in parallel to the other stages, so **some media may be unavailable** until the transfer fully completes). 3. Exporting and re-importing the databases from their LXC containers to the new dedicated database servers. 4. Creating and deploying the new Kubernetes pods, and bringing one of the two instances back online, pointing at the new database and storage. 5. Monitoring for any media-related issues, and bringing the second instance back online. We'll be beginning the maintenance window at **5 PM Mountain Time** (**4 PM Pacific Time**) and have no ETA at this time. We'll provide updates through our existing Telegram announcements channel at https://t.me/pawbsocial. **During this maintenance window, furry.engineer and pawb.fun will be unavailable until the maintenance concluded.** Our Lemmy instance at pawb.social will remain online, though you may experience longer than normal load times due to high network traffic. ---- Finally and most importantly, I want to thank those who have been donating through our **[Ko-Fi page](https://ko-fi.com/pawbsocial)** as this has allowed us to build up a small war chest to make this transfer possible through both new hardware and the inevitable data export fees we'll face bringing content down from Cloudflare R2. Going forward, we're looking into providing additional fediverse services (such as Pixelfed) and extending our data retention length to allow us to maintain more content for longer, but none of this would be possible if it weren't for your generous donations.

Pawb.Social Announcements crashdoom • 8 months ago • 93%

We've updated to Lemmy v0.19.3! For a full change log, see the updates below: - [v0.19.0](https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-12-15_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.0_-_Instance_blocking,_Scaled_sort,_and_Federation_Queue) - [v0.19.1](https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-12-20_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.1_-_Outgoing_Federation_fix) - [v0.19.2](https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-01-10_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.2_-_More_Federation_Fixes) - [v0.19.3](https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-01-22_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.3_-_A_Few_Bugfixes) ## Major changes ### Improved Post Ranking There is a new scaled sort which takes into account the number of active users in a community, and boosts posts from less-active communities to the top. Additionally there is a new controversial sort which brings posts and comments to the top that have similar amounts of upvotes and downvotes. Lemmy’s sorts are detailed [here](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html). ### Instance Blocks for Users Users can now [block instances](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3869). Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities. ### Two-Factor Auth Rework Previously 2FA was enabled in a single step which made it easy to lock yourself out. This is now fixed by using a [two-step process](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3959), where the secret is generated first, and then 2FA is enabled by entering a valid 2FA token. It also fixes the problem where 2FA can be disabled without passing any 2FA token. As part of this change, 2FA is disabled for all users. This allows users who are locked out to get into their account again. ### New Federation Queue Outgoing federation actions are processed through a [new persistent queue](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3605). This means that actions don’t get lost if Lemmy is restarted. It is also much more performant, with separate senders for each target instance. This avoids problems when instances are unreachable. Additionally it supports horizontal scaling across different servers. The endpoint /api/v3/federated_instances contains [details about federation state](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4104) of each remote instance ### Remote Follow Another new feature is [support for remote follow](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1875). When browsing another instance where you don’t have an account, you can click the subscribe button and enter the domain of your home instance in the popup dialog. It will automatically redirect you to your home instance where it fetches the community and presents a subscribe button. [Here is a video showing how it works](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1875#issuecomment-1727790414). ### Moderation Reports are now [resolved automatically](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3871) when the associated post/comment is marked as deleted. This reduces the amount of work for moderators. There is a new [log for image uploads](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3927) which stores uploader. For now it is used to delete all user uploads when an account is purged. Later the list can be used for other purposes and made available through the API.

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 9 months ago • 100%

- **Instance**: pisskey.io - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun - **Reason**: Nazi imagery, affiliated with poa.st and other known abusive instances - **Fediseer Action**: [Censured](https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/pisskey.io)

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 9 months ago • 100%

- **Instance**: the.asbestos.cafe - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun - **Reason**: Homophobia, harassment, trolling, admin involved abuse - **Fediseer Action**: [Censured](https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/the.asbestos.cafe) Block has been applied to the entire domain. ::: spoiler Evidence - https://the.asbestos.cafe/objects/14decba5-b6fb-4c20-b8d7-8cf68374ec58 - https://the.asbestos.cafe/objects/094cfc21-7182-471a-90cc-a493fb126635 - https://the.asbestos.cafe/objects/764af9ee-288c-4151-aa41-b2e295dc95cc - https://the.asbestos.cafe/objects/3f5960bb-8fc1-41b0-b180-7748cd0e15b3 - https://the.asbestos.cafe/objects/bee81dc2-85ee-45ae-b1b6-39f2d2d4dd6f :::

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 9 months ago • 100%

- **Instance**: lab.nyanide.com - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun - **Reason**: Trolling, harassment, homophobia, nazi imagery, admin / mod engaged abuse - **Fediseer Action**: [Censured](https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lab.nyanide.com) Block has been applied to the entire domain. ::: spoiler Evidence    :::

cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/3393854 > - **Instance**: cunnyborea.space > - **Type**: Defederation > - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun > - **Reason**: Racism, antisemitism, homophobia, abusive admin, nazi imagery > - **Fediseer Action**: [Censured](https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/cunnyborea.space) > > ::: spoiler Evidence > - https://i.imgur.com/HgvMVOh.png > - https://union.place/@inquiline/111247251661793670 > :::

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 11 months ago • 100%

- **Instance**: cunnyborea.space - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun - **Reason**: Racism, antisemitism, homophobia, abusive admin, nazi imagery - **Fediseer Action**: [Censured](https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/cunnyborea.space) ::: spoiler Evidence - https://i.imgur.com/HgvMVOh.png - https://union.place/@inquiline/111247251661793670 :::

cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/3337642 > - **Instance**: bv.umbrellix.org > - **Type**: Defederation > - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun > - **Reason**: Toxicity, abusive admin, death threats, emotional abuse > - **Fediseer Action**: [Censured](https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/bv.umbrellix.org) > > ::: spoiler Evidence > - (CW: Abuse) https://bv.umbrellix.org/notice/AZwi9Is6mxT9vo5TSi > - https://sunbeam.city/@kayttaja@toot.site/111142509643025163 > ::: > > **Admin Note**: This block applies to the root domain (*umbrellix.org*) and all associated sub-domains.

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 11 months ago • 100%

- **Instance**: bv.umbrellix.org - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun - **Reason**: Toxicity, abusive admin, death threats, emotional abuse - **Fediseer Action**: [Censured](https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/bv.umbrellix.org) ::: spoiler Evidence - (CW: Abuse) https://bv.umbrellix.org/notice/AZwi9Is6mxT9vo5TSi - https://sunbeam.city/@kayttaja@toot.site/111142509643025163 ::: **Admin Note**: This block applies to the root domain (*umbrellix.org*) and all associated sub-domains.

Pawb.Social Announcements crashdoom • 12 months ago • 100%

Currently, we’re running the Ubiquiti Dream Machine directly as the modem via PPPoE, but there appears to be an intermittent issue with the software implementation that results in periodic downtimes of a few minutes while it reconnects. We’re looking at switching this back out with the ISP provided router in pass through mode to negate the PPPoE connectivity drop. We don’t expect this to take longer than 1 hour to switch over and test for reliability before bringing the services back up. We’ll be performing this maintenance around 11 AM US Mountain Time, and will provide updates via the Telegram channel at https://t.me/pawbsocial.

cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/3077174 > - **Instance**: liberdon.com > - **Type**: Defederation > - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun > - **Reason**: Harassment, trolling, misinformation, sexism, homophobia > - **Fediseer Action**: [Censured](https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/liberdon.com) > > ::: spoiler Evidence > - https://liberdon.com/@ghast > - https://liberdon.com/@ghast/111178732016951128 > - https://liberdon.com/@rimugu/111178647646581863 > - https://liberdon.com/@aristoh4ck8r/111177188127718387 > - https://liberdon.com/@gunkslinger/111175171054509579 > - https://liberdon.com/@TylerAbeoJordan/111174105820298526 > - https://liberdon.com/@TylerAbeoJordan/111174078685171464 > - https://liberdon.com/@TylerAbeoJordan/111173743376687580 > - https://liberdon.com/@medicineman9/111173062104385765 > - https://liberdon.com/@spinneria/111169619274938220 > - https://liberdon.com/@nosat/111165212240469156 > ::: >

Pawb.Social Announcements crashdoom • 12 months ago • 100%

One of the data storage systems (CEPH) encountered a critical failure when Proxmox lost connection to several of its nodes, ultimately resulting in the CEPH configuration being cleared by the Proxmox cluster consensus mechanism. **No data, except ElasticSearch, was stored on CEPH.** When the connection was lost to the other nodes, a split-brain occurred (when nodes disagree on which changes are authoritative and which should be dropped). As we tried to recluster all of the nodes, a resolution occured that resulted in the ceph.conf file being wiped and the data on CEPH being unrecoverable. Thankfully, we’ve suffered no significant data loss, with the exception of having to rebuild the Mastodon ElasticSearch indexes from 6 AM this morning to present. I’d like to profusely apologize for the inconvenience, but we felt it necessary at the time to offline all services as part of our disaster recovery plan to ensure no damage occurred to the containers while we investigated.

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 12 months ago • 100%

- **Instance**: liberdon.com - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun - **Reason**: Harassment, trolling, misinformation, sexism, homophobia - **Fediseer Action**: [Censured](https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/liberdon.com) ::: spoiler Evidence - https://liberdon.com/@ghast - https://liberdon.com/@ghast/111178732016951128 - https://liberdon.com/@rimugu/111178647646581863 - https://liberdon.com/@aristoh4ck8r/111177188127718387 - https://liberdon.com/@gunkslinger/111175171054509579 - https://liberdon.com/@TylerAbeoJordan/111174105820298526 - https://liberdon.com/@TylerAbeoJordan/111174078685171464 - https://liberdon.com/@TylerAbeoJordan/111173743376687580 - https://liberdon.com/@medicineman9/111173062104385765 - https://liberdon.com/@spinneria/111169619274938220 - https://liberdon.com/@nosat/111165212240469156 :::

Pawb.Social Announcements crashdoom • 12 months ago • 100%

We've migrated all of the Pawb.Social (Lemmy) media from within the container to the new local NAS. We'll be performing the same updates for pawb.fun and furry.engineer over the course of the next week, minimizing downtime where possible. We will need to take the services offline once the initial transfer is completed to perform a final check for any new data, and transition to the local NAS, but we'll post an announcement prior to the final maintenance for each instance. These changes are to allow us longer and cheaper retention of remote and local media across all of our services, and to allow us to begin backing up media in case of a catastrophic failure.

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 12 months ago • 100%

- **Instance**: asimon.org - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun - **Reason**: Racism, homophobia, transphobia, trolling, abusive admin - **Fediseer Action**: [Censured](https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/asimon.org) ::: spoiler Evidence https://asimon.org/@coin/posts/Aa8tebnT4kYwTVwrwW https://asimon.org/@coin/posts/AZxmCGq8YxrIx5B6UC https://asimon.org/objects/eda7faae-454b-46f7-a309-94066c261ce6 https://asimon.org/@coin/posts/AZKA8C9YIF3zLb2WLA :::

Pawb.Social Announcements crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

With the upgrade to Mastodon 4.2.0, the way the search system works is changing to allow more broad searches across posts made across the fediverse. Cutting to the chase: **Full-text search** across opted-in posts will be possible in the next few days. ---- In more depth, the system will allow you to search across your own posts and posts you've interacted with from others irrespective of their opt-in status for full-text search, but will additionally allow you to search **ANY** posts made by users that opt-in to allow their posts to be indexed. To that effect, a new setting was added to the **Public Profile** > **Privacy and Reach** page called "Include public posts in search results" which is **disabled** by default. Turning this on will allow any user across the Fediverse to search and find your posts using full-text search. Shortcuts: - [furry.engineer users click here](https://furry.engineer/settings/privacy) - [pawb.fun users click here](https://pawb.fun/settings/privacy) - For everyone else: There's Mastercard ~~(Sorry not sorry xD)~~ But, just take your instance's domain and add `/settings/privacy` to the end (e.g. `https://INSTANCE.TLD/settings/privacy`)  To allow our users to decide if this is a feature they want to use on their posts going forward, we won't be enabling ElasticSearch until *Friday Sept. 22*. ---- Additionally, new keywords will be added to the search system: - `from:me` - `before:2022-11-01`, `after:2022-11-01`, `during:2022-11-01` - `language:fr` - `has:poll` - `in:library` for searching only in posts you have written or interacted with These will be enabled on Friday along with the rest of the changes to the search system. ---- If you've got any questions, please let us know!

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

- **Instance**: eveningzoo.club - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun - **Reason**: Trolling, racism, harassment, no moderation policy ::: spoiler Evidence - https://eveningzoo.club/notice/AZQrHEzRzNTbuXl2VU - https://eveningzoo.club/notice/AZRLrlgctoMuMoHpYW :::

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

- **Instance**: shitpost.cloud - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun - **Reason**: Trolling, racism, harassment, no moderation policy ::: spoiler Evidence - https://shitpost.cloud/@Hoss/posts/AZQgtK4WdzKlw6SGiO - https://shitpost.cloud/@Hoss/posts/Aa5wKz5h08jGFC2fw0 - https://shitpost.cloud/@Hoss/posts/AZQgtK4WdzKlw6SGiO :::

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 1 year ago • 66%

- **Instance**: hexbear.net - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun - **Reason**: Trolling, disruptive behavior, tankie instance, harassment and abuse towards instances defederating them. ::: spoiler screenshots        :::

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

- **Instance**: justbros.xyz - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun - **Reason**: unmoderated, troll, epileptic imagery

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

- **Instance**: clew.lol - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun - **Reason**: troll, homophobia, no moderation, spinoff of poa.st

Pawb.Social Announcements crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

**EDIT** Aug 2, 1:53 PM US Mountain Time: **Maintenance has now concluded** and all services are back online! ---- We're preparing the server rack for an additional Proxmox node to be added to support HA failover and have identified the need to offline and move some equipment around to complete this work. As such, we'll have a temporary downtime for up to 1 hour from 1 PM US Mountain Time, today August 2nd, or **1 hour from this post**. Though, we expect the work to update the node, move it, and bring it back online to take no longer than 30 minutes. We're hoping these changes will help us maintain a more stable service going forward, spread out the Sidekiq processes (the ones that receive / send data across the Fediverse), and allow us to perform maintenance as necessary without having to offline the service in the future. We apologize for the short notice as we had hoped to perform this maintenance without any downtime. ---- Maintenance window: 1 PM - 2 PM US Mountain Time, August 2nd, 2023 ETA: 30 minutes to 1 hour During the maintenance window, the following services will be unavailable: - pawb.fun - pawb.social - furry.engineer We’ll have updates throughout the maintenance window available at https://t.me/pawbsocial.

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

- **Instance**: burggit.moe - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun - **Reason**: CSAM / Loli / Rule 1

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

- **Instance**: federated.fun - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun - **Reason**: Trolling, transphobia, hate speech, unmoderated / single-user instance

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

- **Instance**: ligma.pro - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun - **Reason**: Trolling, harassment, gaslighting admin ::: spoiler CW: remote links, harassment Original post: https://ligma.pro/@r000t/110701630028315917 Gaslighting: https://ligma.pro/@r000t/110701722350085299 :::

FFXIV Online crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

Cleared The Shifting Oubliettes of Lyhe Ghiah with a group of four, hitting every single exclamation mark (though two were secret sweeper trolls)! Love the fact the devs are willing to troll you. FFXIV is awesome XD

Pawb.Social Announcements crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

Around 11:30 PM, one of the core GCFI breakers tripped resulting in the UPS array running until around just after midnight before dropping entirely. We had not set up monitoring on the APC UPS as we hadn’t anticipated that as a failure point due to the reliability of the Colorado electrical grid, and didn’t anticipate the breaker itself flipping after months of continued use. All services should be online again and working to catch up on any dropped content overnight, and we apologize again for the inconvenience. We’ll be trying to identify the root cause throughout the day, working on the electrical connections, and setting up alerting through the APC UPS to detect and persistent A/C loss.

Pawb.Social Announcements crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

**EDIT** Maintenance Complete (7/6 8:41 AM): We’ve finished troubleshooting with the ISP modem (and stumbled onto fixing the issue somehow), so we’ve brought pawb.social back online. The Mastodon upgrade has completed and we’re now running Mastodon+Glitch 4.1.3! …What’s Glitch? Glitch-soc is a fork of Mastodon that enables a ton of cool new features, accessibility options, and more! You’ll see new things like: - An option under the three-dots when posting on the web UI to: Enable threading, or keep your post entirely local to your instance (We’ll be using this going forward with an announcement bot on both pawb.fun and furry.engineer to avoid spamming the timeline) - Formatted toots! (You can now use markdown language in your toots!) - More skins and flavors of the web-UI, including a high contrast version Let us know if you have any issues! ---- Following our [previous post](https://pawb.social/post/1161014) about ISP issues, we'll be performing tests on our ISP equipment tomorrow morning (July 6th) from 7 AM US Mountain Time for several hours. Additionally, we've been made aware of a critical security update for Mastodon that will be released around the same time which we will be applying during the maintenance window. We're unsure the contents of the security update at this time, but have been told there is no reason to believe it has been exploited in the wild. During the maintenance window, the following services will be unavailable: - pawb.fun - pawb.social - furry.engineer We'll have updates throughout the maintenance window available at https://t.me/pawbsocial. We hope to complete the maintenance as soon as possible and apologize for any inconvenience this causes.

Pawb.Social Announcements crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

**EDIT** Mitigated (7/3 10:14 AM): We’ve been temporarily downgraded to 100Mbps to lower the bandwidth stress on the network due to a damaged fiber trunk cable. The service should be stable now but some requests may take longer than expected due to occassional ping spikes. An engineer has been scheduled for Wednesday 7/5 and we’ll have an update then. We apologize for any inconvenience. ---- **EDIT** (7/3 @ 1:29 AM): The service appears to be mostly functional again and is processing through missed messages, so you may see delays in receiving notifications and feed posts from during the downtime. We’re still seeing above normal pings and the occasional dropped packets, but the connection seems mostly stable. We’ll check in again around 10 AM US Mountain Time. ---- **EDIT** (7/3 @ 12:52 AM): We've exhausted our troubleshooting at this time and are waiting a repair technician. While the service does appear to be more stable right now, we're still seeing higher than normal pings. We've created a backup Telegram channel for announcements in the event of the site going offline again: https://t.me/pawbsocial. ---- As of July 2nd, 2023 at 10:07 PM, we're currently experiencing an intermittent Internet outage. We've reported the issue to our ISP and are awaiting a resolution. The service may be partially or fully unavailable for short periods during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Pawb.Social Announcements crashdoom • 1 year ago • 96%

**Applications are now closed!** Thank you to everyone who applied, we’ll be reviewing the applications this week and be in touch soon! ---- **EDIT**: Due to issues with sending DMs between Lemmy and Mastodon, if you're on Pawb.Social submitting an application, please send it to [@admin@pawb.social](https://pawb.social/u/admin) via https://pawb.social/create_private_message/126149 instead. ---- Pawb.Social services have been steadily growing more and more over the past few months, from the debacle of Twitter and the meltdown of Reddit, we've seen users flocking to not only our instances but those of our wider fediverse community. ---- ##### Seeking Content Moderators We're seeking to bring on a small group of volunteer Content Moderators to help with addressing reports, identifying content that breaks the Code of Conduct, and assisting users with concerns and issues. ###### Please consider the following questions: - Are you friendly, polite, and willing to be approached by users? - Are you willing to help users on our instances? - Do you have free time to commit and are you able to stick with it long term (6+ months)? - Do you work well with others in a team? - Are you willing to join a Telegram group to coordinate decisions, issue reporting, and communications with the team? - Have you ever had any moderation experience? - Which instance would you prefer to moderate? (furry.engineer, pawb.fun, pawb.social, all?) - Do you understand that reports you handle may result in being exposed to indecent, graphic, or otherwise rule-breaking imagery that may be disturbing? You may (but are not required to) add additional information to your application giving us a little background on yourself, why you're interested in joining the team, your favorite topic (Lemmy) / hashtag (Mastodon), or anything else you'd like. *Not including this will **not** affect your application, it's purely optional.* ###### How to apply If the questions haven't scared you away and you're still willing to assist us, you must have been a user on Pawb.Social services for at least one (1) week, have had no previous CoC violations, and have no history of recent (past few years) disruptive or abusive behavior within online communities. If you'd like to apply from Mastodon, please send a DM to [@staffapps@furry.engineer](https://furry.engineer/@staffapps). If you're on Lemmy and you'd like to apply, click this link to send a DM from your Pawb.Social account: https://pawb.social/create_private_message/126149. ###### Timeline Applications will remain open for two (2) weeks and will close on **July 14th, at noon US Mountain Time**. We expect to review the applications the following week and reach out to all applicants with the result of their application shortly thereafter. ---- Thank you for being the awesome part of Pawb.Social!

Pawb.Social Announcements crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

We've just updated to the latest version of Lemmy which comes with a ton of bug fixes and an updated UI without websockets (yay, easier debugging). You can find the full changes over at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/releases/tag/0.18.0. This also appears to have fixed an issue with connecting to kbin instances. You should now be able to search those up in the same way as other Lemmy communities: `!community@domain`, but let us know if there's any issues!

Pawb.Social Announcements crashdoom • 1 year ago • 99%

Over the past 48 hours, we've received a lot of discourse regarding the upcoming ["Project 92" platform created by Facebook](https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754304/instagram-meta-twitter-competitor-threads-activitypub) and the [anti-meta fedi pact](https://pawb.social/post/94210). While we're still in early days of the request for comments, a clear pattern has emerged that users of Pawb.Social services unequivocally do not want their data to be abused by corporate interests, such as those of Facebook. Over and above the corporate interests, Facebook has also demonstrated a repeated failure to enact meaningful moderation changes to avoid abusive content on their platform, especially misinformation.^[^[^1^](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/19/facebook-funnelling-readers-towards-covid-misinformation-study)^][^[^2^](https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/17/23764429/meta-covid-misinformation-rules-facebook-instagram)^][^[^3^](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-documents-misinformation-spread/)^]^ > "I do wonder if this discussion is a little academic, because I feel like Meta instances are very likely to get defederated for some reason under the current rules, like poor moderation, spam, or generic abuse." ^[^[^4^](https://pawb.social/comment/239407)^]^ As pointed out above, excluding the corporate interests, the discussion is somewhat moot due to the concerns regarding moderation which would lead to a Facebook operated instance being inevitably suspended. For these reasons, **Pawb.Social (including furry.engineer and pawb.fun) will suspend any and all Facebook owned, operated, or affiliated instances** in the interests of protecting our users and communities. ---- ::: spoiler sources and references [1] Emma Graham-Harrison and Alex Hern; The Guardian. 2020. "Facebook funnelling readers towards Covid misinformation - study." Retrieved June 19, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/19/facebook-funnelling-readers-towards-covid-misinformation-study [2] Wes Davis; The Verge. 2023. "Meta is rolling back its covid-19 misinformation rules in the US." Retrieved June 19, 2023, https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/17/23764429/meta-covid-misinformation-rules-facebook-instagram [3] Kris Van Cleave; CBS Evening News. 2021. " CBS Evening News Internal Facebook documents detail how misinformation spreads to users." Retrieved June 19, 2023, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-documents-misinformation-spread/ [4] Cyrik (@CyrikCroc). 2023. Comment on topic "Join or ignore the anti-meta fedi pact". Retrieved June 19, 2023, https://pawb.social/comment/239407 :::

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

- **Instance**: lemmygrad.ml - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social (Lemmy) only - **Reason**: Trolling, disruptive behavior, tankie instance

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

- **Instance**: seal.cafe - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social, furry.engineer, pawb.fun - **Reason**: Trolling, no moderation policy

Pawb.Social Announcements crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

Firstly, I'd like to apologize for the lack of transparency we've had on Pawb.Social, compared to our usual standards with the Mastodon instances. We should ensure that all of our users are well aware of when we make important decisions that may affect their abilities to view content from other instances. So for that, I'm sorry. Secondly, we've now created an additional community over at [/c/adminlog](https://pawb.social/c/adminlog) which will document all of the administrative-level decisions taken by the Admin team which won't show up in the [Modlog](/modlog). These decisions will include: Defederation, removal of community images (banners / icons), addition / removal of moderators, and addition / removal of instance admins. We'll prefix each post with tags to identify what type of action it is at a glance followed by the instance or community name, and detail in the post what action we took and why we took it. If you have any questions or concerns, you can leave them here or post them in the [feedback community](https://pawb.social/c/pawbsocial_feedback) as many of you already have done. Thanks, Crashdoom

Pawb.Social Administrative Actions crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

After reviewing a [recent post](https://sh.itjust.works/post/129725) by the administrator of sh.itjust.works and comments from the community, we've decided to revoke the defederation action. We're hoping that proactive moderation strategies and development to Lemmy's moderation tools help us avoid the need to defederate from instances like sh.itjust.works in the future. ---- **Original defederation info:** - **Instance**: sh.itjust.works - **Type**: Defederation - **Affects**: Pawb.Social (Lemmy) only - **Reason**: We defederated from sh.itjust.works due repeated abuse from users and the open-registration policy permitting this.

Pawb.Social Announcements crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16351 > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15953 > > > Hi all! > > > > So, I'm assuming everyone has seen links like https://beehaw.org/c/news and clicked through to find it doesn't work right because it's a different site (I'm assuming a different instance here). > > > > Well, I just stumbled across an interesting feature: if you enter a link in the following format, it works for everyone regardless of instance of origin: > > > > [News]\(/c/news@beehaw.org) > > > > [News](/c/news@beehaw.org) > > > > [My User]\(/u/barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev) > > > > [My User](/u/barbarian@lemmy.reckless.dev) > > > > You're welcome!

Pawb.Social Feedback crashdoom • 1 year ago • 100%

#### Important Update We’re going to be setting up a fork to maintain some separation, add additional features, and remove references due to raised concerns. So, **we will not be changing software**, and will be continuing business as usual. We've forked the repositories and they can be found at these URLs: https://github.com/PawbSocial/lemmy and https://github.com/PawbSocial/lemmy-ui. You can follow the instructions at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/02-local-development.html for setting up a local development environment. ---- [ original post continues ] Hey everyone! We received [feedback](https://pawb.social/post/9090) that raised concerns regarding the apparent moderation and censorship issues around lemmy.ml, and [allegations made by Feditips](https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379) about the Lemmy developers. We'd appreciate some feedback from users of our community (users here, or on the Fediverse), furry.engineer, and pawb.fun. As it stands, we have defederated from one of the more prominent problematic instances, lemmygrad.ml, but haven't taken any action against lemmy.ml. So the question stands: **Should we continue running Lemmy, or swap to an alternative?** The currently considered alternative would be kbin.pub (example instance: kbin.social) which shares being a FOSS project with full ActivityPub support. If we continue to run Lemmy, we wouldn't be opposed to having a forked version that removes certain elements from the UI, such as the donate icon, but, we would require community assistance to maintain this fork. ---- Receipts: - Beware by Feditips (recently reposted): https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379 - "Expressing concerns about moderation policy on lemmy.ml" - https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199 - Comments in https://lemmy.ml/post/1150805