cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/1047028 - because ironically this will not reach instances where Lemmit is blocked. > A few months ago, I launched the Lemmit instance and bot ([@bot@lemmit.online](https://lemmit.online/u/bot)). Primarily, this was to help me stay up to date with some of the content I'd leave behind on Reddi. Additionally, I wanted to give back to the community, so I made it possible for anyone to request the archiving of subreddits to the Lemmit instance. > > However, this came with some unintended consequences. Notably, the most subscribed community on the instance has been [!AmItheAsshole@lemmit.online](https://lemmit.online/c/AmItheAsshole). Even though it should have been obvious that there is no way to communicate with the Original Poster, given they're on Reddit. > > The pushback against the bot and the instance has increased over time. A recent post, [This bot is bad for Lemmy](https://lemmit.online/post/853127), highlighted these concerns. I've also received similar feedback from admins of major Lemmy Instances and through direct PMs. > > As a response, last week I stopped accepting requests for archiving new subreddits. This weekend, I went a step further by discontinuing the archiving of a large amount of "interactive subreddits"—communities primarily centered around Q&A or communication with the Original Poster. This includes subs like [!AskReddit@lemmit.online](https://lemmit.online/c/AskReddit) and [!dating_advice@lemmit.online](https://lemmit.online/c/dating_advice), as well as niche and support communities. Such discussions are better hosted on Reddit or Lemmy's equivalent spaces. > > I've also adjusted the post karma thresholds to curb spam posts. While this probably won't appease everyone, it should reduce the bot's posting frequency. > > Perhaps this might prompt some admins to rethink their choice to defederate from the Lemmit instance, or the banning of the bot. I'm not expecting anyone to, and won't take it personally if you don't, but I wanted to give the community this update nonetheless. > > In [!about@lemmit.online](https://lemmit.online/c/about) there's a sticky post of all the Actively archived communities on the server (including NSFW ones, since that is not public without logging in), as well as the list of communities for which archiving is now disabled. > > Cheers!
Technology
Jordan Peterson Generates Millions of YouTube Hits for Climate Crisis Deniers
usernotfound 1 year ago • 75%
What do you mean by "don't move the Overton Window"? It's not supposed to be a static thing. Once it didn't include things like voting rights for women, or gay marriage. It's supposed to be a flexible thing.
Technology
The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker website
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
I could, but it would only reinforce their belief they're victim here. Nothing would change.
Technology
The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker website
usernotfound 1 year ago • 85%
Removed as a protest against the community's support for campaigns to bring about the deaths of members of marginalized groups, and opposition to private entities working to prevent such campaigns, together with it's mindless flaming and downvoting of anyone who disagrees.
As a postscript for this discussion only, be aware that virtually all the replies to my comments quote me out of context, or claim I've made arguments I haven't. It's safe to disregard them.
Quoted verbatim here, just in case you choose to edit it again.
The only reason you got downvoted to hell in this thread is because you want to paint everyone who opposes corporate censorship as transgender murder supporters, in, what the article itself describes as a futile, neverending effort.
And now that you are time and time confronted with the fallacies you employ, you decide to edit all your comments "in protest". Stopping only to call everyone who opposed you even in the slightest an accomplice to murder. Very mature.
Edit: Ah cute. They delivered another show of their good intent in my DM;
Fuck off and die you harassing, lying, piece of shit.
Everyone who disagrees with you must be pro-kiwi huh? I rest my case.
Sync for Lemmy
Post launch day chat
usernotfound 1 year ago • 30%
Nothing out of the ordinary on commercial platforms where the user is the product, like Google, Facebook, or reddit.
Here on Lemmy (where most development is done out of charity, and servers are run by donations) it IS the outlier.
Sync for Lemmy
GDPR settings are simply insane
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
Why would it be legal to ignore the law because your product is in alpha or beta? Hell, Gmail was in "beta" for like the first 10 years of its existence.
Sync for Lemmy
GDPR settings are simply insane
usernotfound 1 year ago • 33%
I agree that "fuck this" might be a bit too strong for some people, I don't think there's anything wrong with "uninstalling", as long as the reasoning behind it is mentioned.
Edit: I see now that you're talking about hypotheticals, because nobody in this thread is doing that.
Sync for Lemmy
GDPR settings are simply insane
usernotfound 1 year ago • 58%
If its uncivilised to uninstall an app because it's bugs are invading your privacy, then I don't want to be civilised. If anything, I'm doing the author a favour by telling them why I'm using their competitors.
Sync for Lemmy
GDPR settings are simply insane
usernotfound 1 year ago • 86%
Why is it called "Revoke consent"? Consent was never asked during setup, so how can it be revoked?
Edit: oh great. It doesn't even save your settings for objecting to "Legitimate interest". Uninstalled.
It's ironic, because the companies who claim to have a legitimate interest in tracking my behaviour are the ones I want to block from tracking me most of all.
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
Where did you have in mind?
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
BOT! KILL IT!
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
That's why they're talking about the next generation.
With AI you can easily generate 100 different ways to say the same thing. And it's hard to distinguish a bot that's parroting someone else from a person who's repeating something they heard.
Programming
Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity as Critics Slam It as Dangerous
usernotfound 1 year ago • 33%
Ok.
Programming
Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity as Critics Slam It as Dangerous
usernotfound 1 year ago • 50%
Both support stronger safety features in chromium and criminals and bullies got equated to kicking puppies. That's why it's a shoddy attempt at illustrating their reasoning.
Programming
Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity as Critics Slam It as Dangerous
usernotfound 1 year ago • 50%
There's some massive misunderstanding about my comment.
I called it a false equivalency because it's comparing both the measures ("stronger safety") and the thing is supposed to prevent (doxing and bullying) to puppy kicking.
That's just emotional manipulation done badly. We all call it out when politicians use pedophiles to warrant Internet surveillance, and now apply it ourselves? I don't know about you, but when I see bad reasoning, I'll call it out. Even if it's done by "my side".
Programming
Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity as Critics Slam It as Dangerous
usernotfound 1 year ago • 20%
Kick a puppy
If you have to resort to false equivalences like these, you're not really making the anti-WEI crowd look good.
*Edit: * There's some massive misunderstanding about my comment.
I called it a false equivalency because it's comparing both the measures ("stronger safety") and the thing is supposed to prevent (doxing and bullying) to puppy kicking.
That's just emotional manipulation done badly. We all call it out when politicians use pedophiles to warrant Internet surveillance, and now apply it ourselves? I don't know about you, but when I see bad reasoning, I'll call it out. Even if it's done by "my side".
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
Memesusernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
Storage on the vm won't be too much of an issue, as long as you make sure to use Object Storage (s3) for pict-rs from the start. For Lemmit (just a few users, but hundreds of communities and over 150k posts) I'm doing fine with just 2 GB of memory, 1 vcpu, and 2 GB of disk storage for postgres. The storage bucket is sitting at 36 GB.
You might want to scale up cpu and memory for more users as you grow, but you'd be surprise with how little resources you can get away.
Linuxusernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
That's promising :/ I really like the shape of that mouse, and the custom weights. What did you end up buying instead?
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
I still have a ~10 year old Logitech G500 that has finally started to go bad. I've been looking around, and it seems that Logitech's quality has been going down the drain - apparently sometimes clicks get registered as double clicks on recent models?
Can you (or anyone else who has one) comment on their experience with that?
Lemmy
With the recent hack, there is now irrefutable proof of malicious actors trying to break Lemmy and steal user accounts. Please be careful about entering your password into random Lemmy apps!
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
How many password managers have you been trying out this week?
Lemmy
With the recent hack, there is now irrefutable proof of malicious actors trying to break Lemmy and steal user accounts. Please be careful about entering your password into random Lemmy apps!
usernotfound 1 year ago • 75%
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Lemmys tokens have no expiration, right? So they are effectively username and password combined.
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
I switched to 18.1 this weekend, and the cpu is basically bored now ;)
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
Which table/columns am I looking at here?
usernotfound 1 year ago • 80%
What the Wandermeister over here said.
Object storage generally is much cheaper than vm disk space (I got 1TB for $5/month at vultr). And the sooner you do it, the better - the migration process took 3 hours for me yesterday, transferring just over 102k files (34 GB).
usernotfound 1 year ago • 91%
Hole in their pocket?
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
Use rsync to get the bulk of the data over (even if it's mid write) one or more times, then stop the stack on the origin server, and run rsync again. It should be much faster.
Lemmy
PSA: Lemmy.juggler.jp is cleaning up bot accounts, and everybody gets to enjoy. (check if you're affected)
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that tool. Thanks for all the stuff that you do!
Lemmy
Why even thought twitter and reddit are going into selfdestruction only twitter alternatives became somehow popular?
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
In my experience people only follow people to new networks when enough other people have made the switch. Try convincing people to use signal or telegram instead of WhatsApp, for example.
To move off twitter, one person will make the journey, find out that most of the people they want to follow (or be followed by) aren't on mastodon, and go back to twitter.
People don't actively seek out content on Lemmy (yet). But if they do check it out, they will be more likely to stick around if they feel they don't miss out on stuff they were used to on reddit.
For some things like text posts and questions, comments / discussion is great. For other, more content based posts like photos, game discounts or adult content, I don't mind one bit not seeing other people's comments.
Lemmit is meant to become obsolete in the long run, but it can help prime the network with content that makes it easier to switch over.
Lemmy
Why even thought twitter and reddit are going into selfdestruction only twitter alternatives became somehow popular?
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
Actually I'd say it's the other way around. It's hard to switch a social network, since it only makes sense to switch if the people you want to follow are also on the new network (The Network Effect).
However, for sites like reddit, it matters less. I don't care who posts the cute kittens in !aww@lemmy.world, as long as they're there. Much lower barrier to join. Once a network is primed with good content, the people will come.
More inline with OP: it also helps that there was already a huge exodus from twitter to mastodon a few years back, so they've got a bit of a head start.
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
Might be an idea to make your lemmy home on an instance that doesn't allow down votes (those exist). People on other servers might still downvote it, but you won't notice.
In fact, I think I'll go do that myself.
Asklemmyusernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
- I started out with the og Lemmy.ml.
- Then created my own instance/bot Lemmit.
- Thought Lemmy.ml was to slow/unstable, so created an account on Lemmy.world
- Gotta have a separate account for grown up stuff, so signed up on LemmyNSFW.com
- Gee... Lemmy.world is kinda slow/unstable... Better sign up on lemm.ee...
I'll probably retire the lemmy.ml and world accounts though.
Programmer Humor
Lemmy
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
🤔 The server spits out html when it cannot reach the backend. So one could argue it's a configuration issue because the admin didn't provide enough capacity / didn't set up a proper generic json error for backend failures.
FWIW, Liftoff doesn't handle these super gracefully either.
At any rate I think it's kinda awesome that we get to witness these kinds of infancy problems.
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
How to you feel about "us youngsters" barging in here and bringing server performance to its knees? (sorry!)
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
Is that a roundabout way of saying you're getting a divorce? Does she know?
Lemmy
PSA: Lemmy.juggler.jp is cleaning up bot accounts, and everybody gets to enjoy. (check if you're affected)
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
6 hours since the first message and they're still at it. Another 12.000 messages in the activitiy table.
I added a line in the firewall and now it's quiet;
iptables -A INPUT -s 118.241.84.147 -p tcp --dport 443 -j DROP
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
Thanks, I guess I'll just have to add another cronjob ;)
Lemmy
PSA: Lemmy.juggler.jp is cleaning up bot accounts, and everybody gets to enjoy. (check if you're affected)
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
Side note: even after deferating, these activities still show up in activity table. (I'm on version 0.17.4).
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1637526 > @tateisu@lemmy.juggler.jp PING! > > I just had to delete over 44.000 Users, Bans and Activity messages from my database and defederate from `lemmy.juggler.jp`. Somehow, all their bans get propagated to the rest of the lemmyverse. > > I did a quick check, and it seems like not all instances liked are affected, but some definitely are. [aussie.zone](https://aussie.zone/modlog), for starters (PING! @admin@aussie.zone ) > > The good news is that, due to the relational database, you only need to delete the users, and the database cascade does the rest. **BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR DATABASE** I am not responsible for messing up your database. Don't ever execute commands given by a stranger on the internet if you don't understand them. > Also, unless you defederate from them, the logspam will just continue. So maybe do that first. > *** > > To fix it, get database access somehow, and check your `instance` table. There, search for the id for `lemmy.juggler.jp` with the following query: > ```sql > SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'lemmy.juggler.jp'; > ``` > > Write down that id, and execute the following query: > ```sql > DELETE FROM person WHERE instance_id=<the id you just wrote down>; > ``` > This will probably take a while (over 2 minutes on my database), > > Example log message: > ```json > { > "cc": ["https://lemmygrad.ml/", "https://lemmy.ml/", "https://midwest.social/", "https://lm.korako.me/", "https://tabinezumi.net/", "https://lemmy.shrieker.net/", "https://bar.southfox.me/", "https://sopuli.xyz/", "https://slrpnk.net/", "https://feddit.de/", "https://lemmy.perthchat.org/", "https://baraza.africa/", "https://mander.xyz/", "https://lemmy.eus/", "https://lemmy.ca/", "https://lemmy.fediverse.jp/", "https://fapsi.be/", "https://exploding-heads.com/", "https://baomi.tv/", "https://fediverse.ro/", "https://lemmy.pt/", "https://szmer.info/", "https://feddit.it/", "https://jeremmy.ml/", "https://group.lt/", "https://beehaw.org/", "https://lemmy.rimkus.it/", "https://lemmy.tedomum.net/", "https://lemmy.coupou.fr/", "https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/", "https://community.xmpp.net/", "https://lemmy.simple-gear.com/", "https://lem.simple-gear.com/", "https://lm.gsk.moe/", "https://latte.isnot.coffee/", "https://lemmy.sdf.org/", "https://lemm.ee/", "https://sh.itjust.works/", "https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/", "https://yiffit.net/", "https://lemmy.world/", "https://lemmyfly.org/", "https://vlemmy.net/", "https://lemmynsfw.com/", "https://programming.dev/", "https://terefere.eu/", "https://discuss.tchncs.de/", "https://infosec.pub/", "https://lem.elbullazul.com/", "https://feddit.jp/", "https://lemmit.online/", "https://aussie.zone/", "https://social.fossware.space/", "https://social.sour.is/", "https://lemmy.management/", "https://lemmy.one/"], > "id": "https://lemmy.juggler.jp/activities/block/51bd6d83-3780-45c6-b29a-1b3a9a0bb401", > "to": ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"], > "type": "Block", > "actor": "https://lemmy.juggler.jp/u/tateisu", > "object": "https://lemmy.juggler.jp/u/samydes225879", > "target": "https://lemmy.juggler.jp/", > "summary": "spam accounts created?", > "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "https://w3id.org/security/v1", { > "pt": "https://joinpeertube.org/ns#", > "sc": "http://schema.org/", > "lemmy": "https://join-lemmy.org/ns#", > "expires": "as:endTime", > "litepub": "http://litepub.social/ns#", > "language": "sc:inLanguage", > "stickied": "lemmy:stickied", > "sensitive": "as:sensitive", > "identifier": "sc:identifier", > "moderators": { > "@id": "lemmy:moderators", > "@type": "@id" > }, > "removeData": "lemmy:removeData", > "ChatMessage": "litepub:ChatMessage", > "matrixUserId": "lemmy:matrixUserId", > "distinguished": "lemmy:distinguished", > "commentsEnabled": "pt:commentsEnabled", > "postingRestrictedToMods": "lemmy:postingRestrictedToMods" > }], > "removeData": true > } > ``` > >
[@tateisu@lemmy.juggler.jp](https://lemmy.juggler.jp/u/juggler) PING! I just had to delete over 44.000 Users, Bans and Activity messages from my database and defederate from `lemmy.juggler.jp`. Somehow, all their bans get propagated to the rest of the lemmyverse. I did a quick check, and it seems like not all instances liked are affected, but some definitely are. [aussie.zone](https://aussie.zone/modlog), for starters (PING! [@admin@aussie.zone](https://aussie.zone/u/admin)). The good news is that, due to the relational database, you only need to delete the users, and the database cascade does the rest. **BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR DATABASE** I am not responsible for messing up your database. Don't ever execute commands given by a stranger on the internet if you don't understand them. Also, **unless you defederate from them FIRST, the logspam will just continue**. So maybe do that first. *** To fix it, get database access somehow, and check your `instance` table. There, search for the id for `lemmy.juggler.jp` with the following query: ```sql SELECT id FROM instance WHERE domain = 'lemmy.juggler.jp'; ``` Write down that id, and execute the following query: ```sql DELETE FROM person WHERE instance_id=<the id you just wrote down>; ``` This will probably take a while (over 2 minutes on my database), Example log message: ```json { "cc": ["https://lemmygrad.ml/", "https://lemmy.ml/", "https://midwest.social/", "https://lm.korako.me/", "https://tabinezumi.net/", "https://lemmy.shrieker.net/", "https://bar.southfox.me/", "https://sopuli.xyz/", "https://slrpnk.net/", "https://feddit.de/", "https://lemmy.perthchat.org/", "https://baraza.africa/", "https://mander.xyz/", "https://lemmy.eus/", "https://lemmy.ca/", "https://lemmy.fediverse.jp/", "https://fapsi.be/", "https://exploding-heads.com/", "https://baomi.tv/", "https://fediverse.ro/", "https://lemmy.pt/", "https://szmer.info/", "https://feddit.it/", "https://jeremmy.ml/", "https://group.lt/", "https://beehaw.org/", "https://lemmy.rimkus.it/", "https://lemmy.tedomum.net/", "https://lemmy.coupou.fr/", "https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/", "https://community.xmpp.net/", "https://lemmy.simple-gear.com/", "https://lem.simple-gear.com/", "https://lm.gsk.moe/", "https://latte.isnot.coffee/", "https://lemmy.sdf.org/", "https://lemm.ee/", "https://sh.itjust.works/", "https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/", "https://yiffit.net/", "https://lemmy.world/", "https://lemmyfly.org/", "https://vlemmy.net/", "https://lemmynsfw.com/", "https://programming.dev/", "https://terefere.eu/", "https://discuss.tchncs.de/", "https://infosec.pub/", "https://lem.elbullazul.com/", "https://feddit.jp/", "https://lemmit.online/", "https://aussie.zone/", "https://social.fossware.space/", "https://social.sour.is/", "https://lemmy.management/", "https://lemmy.one/"], "id": "https://lemmy.juggler.jp/activities/block/51bd6d83-3780-45c6-b29a-1b3a9a0bb401", "to": ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"], "type": "Block", "actor": "https://lemmy.juggler.jp/u/tateisu", "object": "https://lemmy.juggler.jp/u/samydes225879", "target": "https://lemmy.juggler.jp/", "summary": "spam accounts created?", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "https://w3id.org/security/v1", { "pt": "https://joinpeertube.org/ns#", "sc": "http://schema.org/", "lemmy": "https://join-lemmy.org/ns#", "expires": "as:endTime", "litepub": "http://litepub.social/ns#", "language": "sc:inLanguage", "stickied": "lemmy:stickied", "sensitive": "as:sensitive", "identifier": "sc:identifier", "moderators": { "@id": "lemmy:moderators", "@type": "@id" }, "removeData": "lemmy:removeData", "ChatMessage": "litepub:ChatMessage", "matrixUserId": "lemmy:matrixUserId", "distinguished": "lemmy:distinguished", "commentsEnabled": "pt:commentsEnabled", "postingRestrictedToMods": "lemmy:postingRestrictedToMods" }], "removeData": true } ```
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
Mostly receiving posts and sending out to federated servers.
usernotfound 1 year ago • 100%
I think that's more of a client issue than a server issue though.
Lemmy starts out pretty chill, but the longer it is running, the more CPU it's using. Until I restart it again, and then the process starts over again. It's just `/app/lemmy` that's eating the cpu cycles. Looks like there are some threads that keep requeueing themselves, until eventually that's all it's doing. Does anybody have any clues or pointers about this? I'm running 0.17.4, haven't made the jump yet to 0.18.
(attempt to cross-post from [/c/programming](https://lemmy.ml/post/1176330) ) Idea: Scrape all the posts from a subreddit as they're being made, and "archive" them on a lemmy instance, making it very clear it's being rehosted, and linking back to the original. It would probably have to be a "closed" lemmy instance specifically for this purpose. The tool would run for multiple subreddits, allowing Lemmy users to still be updated about and discuss any potential content that gets left behind. Thoughts? It's probably iffy copyright-wise, but I think I can square my conscience with it. *** **Update**: as per the feedback, I have acquired a separate instance, and started coding. Just tonight I managed to clone some posts from a subreddit to it. - I’m intentionally being vague because I will probably wipe and reset the communities on there a couple of times, and that messes up federation. The goal is to have all the communities be read only for non-mods (and the only mod will be the admin and bots), but to also have a separate request community where anyone can request subreddits to be cloned. I’ll keep updating this post here - still figuring all of this out as I go along :)
Idea: Scrape all the posts from a subreddit as they're being made, and "archive" them on a lemmy instance, making it very clear it's being rehosted, and linking back to the original. It would probably have to be a "closed" lemmy instance specifically for this purpose. The tool would run for multiple subreddits, allowing Lemmy users to still be updated about and discuss any potential content that gets left behind. Thoughts? It's probably iffy copyright-wise, but I think I can square my conscience with it.