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The VPS just cannot handle the load. I'm initiating a migration to a dedicated server in a bit. This will require a bit of downtime. Thanks for understanding

The pictrs migration script has finished, but it seems it might not have migrated all images. I am noticing some errors on the container and I see a bunch of posts missing them.

I'm leaving it up for now and I'm going to look how and if I can fix this

As such images and image uploads won't work while the migration is ongoing. Thanks for understanding

on some comments, the number of votes is different when I view them from this instance vs when I open them in their respective instances.

one more thing I've noticed is that some comments have 0 vote on this instance but in reality have 1 vote mostly from other lemmy instances like lemmy.world and kbin.social

I'm guessing this has something to do with federation ?

As I had said a while ago, I'm doing some light inactive community pruning on the regular.

This time I looked for communities with 0 posts and low effort (i.e. no description, banners etc). I didn't bother to send a warning because that just adds extra effort for me. If you can't put any effort when starting a community, I can't be expected to put any effort when deleting it for abandonment, eh?

In case anyone else is interested, here's the SQL query I used to detect abandoned communities.

SELECT c.id, c.name, c.local, c.published
FROM public.community AS c
LEFT JOIN (
   SELECT community_id, COUNT(*) AS post_count
   FROM public.post
   GROUP BY community_id
) AS p ON c.id = p.community_id
WHERE c.local = true

If they don't have any post, description and banner after 10 days, then I consider them low-effort and purge them immediately.

For the communities I've seen at least a bit of effort, I plan to still send warnings first.

About 20 communities were pruned this time (including 3 of mine :D )

So I've noticed while using an RSS feed app alongside Jebora, that while original post from other users of the same instance appear in full and with photos, like so:

However if a user is from another instance, the OP content is not visble at all, as so:

Other than that, RSS works great as a notification system for Communities. Figured id leave this here to help out anyone looking for a notification style system for new posts.

say there are three instances, A, B and C. if A is not federated with B, users from those two instances can't interact (right ?) but what if both are federated with C ? would both indirectly be able to interact ? if there is a post on instance C and a user from B comments on it, would that comment be visible on all three instances ?

Would it be possible to add some more CSS themes at instance level to choose from in the settings?

I was thinking these themes should fit a nice range of tastes: https://github.com/2xx04/lemmy-ui-themes

Hey y'all, a link aggregator isn't always the best place to talk real-time. So since I've made a Space to host mod discussions, I through I'd expand it a bit for general discussion as well.

Currently I'm keeping it Invite only, but the invite is above. Basically I just don't want any rando to wander :) But feel free to invite your friends or just link to this post.

If you're a mod of a big community here and you want a mod room in that space, let the admins know!

EDIT: Made the space public now as invite only caused issues

After some hiccups due to lemmy not following the hjson standard suddenly, I managed to get this done. (h/t to @[email protected] )

Damn that took way longer than it should have >_<

Anyway, let me know if anything appears broken and if you want, do consider helping with the server costs and the time required to maintain them

Couldn't even get past the start. Immediately failed with

lemmy_1     | thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to load settings file, see documentation (https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/configuration.html): LemmyError { message: None, inner: ExpectedF64 at 6:26 at "\n    database: ", context: SpanTrace [] }', crates/utils/src/settings/mod.rs:20:20

if anyone can help, lemme know.

I'm am looking to upgrading versions soon. Unfortunately there were massive changes in the reverse proxy setup, which means I need to change a lot of things in my reverse proxy setup. I am hoping I don't cause too much of a downtime, but if I know, you now know why

Alright nerds, I turned Registration Application on as I'm getting a bit too worried about spam accounts. I hope we can figure and strengthen some solutions before it's too late.

PS Check: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/163869

~~This reminds me. I need more admins. Please let me know if you want to help with the site stuff, particularly approving new users and banning spam.~~

~~I need active people, not ones for status, and people who enthusiastically agree with the server rules.~~

EDIT: Admin positions fulfilled. Thanks y'all

I am going to be using that to post devlogs etc. But feel free to talk about it and open suggestions etc.

I cannot add polish to languages in setting, which means I don't see posts in polish I am interested in in another instance, what should I do?

I've been reading up on this FediPact stuff, and I'm curious: will the Divisions by zero instance be defederating Meta when they launch their new app that's supposed to be Fediverse compatible? I checked the Anti-Meta FediPact list, but couldn't find @db0 listed on there. I did read on a different post that the creator of the FediPact list has been blocking some people from signing it for whatever reason, so I'm not sure if that's what happened here.

I've spent the whole day on this, but now joining and using the Fediseer (previously known as Overseer) should be an order of magnitude easier!

when can we expect a server update to 0.18?I can't log in to jeroba as a result of server version. I know youve said your busy with anti spam so was just curious

Is there any chance that Divisions by zero could run an onion service so that its users could get the extra anonymity/privacy benefits that come with it when browsing over Tor? For comparison, Reddit also runs an onion service.

There is a setup guide for doing this with lemmy, which was published just a few days ago, at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/tor_hidden_service.html

This is my current attempt at preparing to counter the spam waves that will be appearing as the fediverse becomes more and more popular.

It involves the creation of whitelists based on a chain of trust between instances with easy ways to add and remove into it with few overheads.

Let me know what you think and if you're interested, please do register your instance at https://overctrl.dbzer0.com.

For instance say I post a guide on how to do something related to piracy...should I be concerned that my IP is being logged? I understand if it is logged it is most likely saved on the instance server I'm posting on. What I'm asking is if I should be constantly using a VPN while browsing or posting on instances?

The botted account proliferation is escalating fast. Almost all top instances one can see in the fediverse observer are now bot-filled ones

I contacted their team to ask them to gather more details so that we can use the Overseer to combat this in advance, but they're disinterested in helping so no assist will come from there. Fairly disheartening I must say.

I was not planning to get into this sort of api polling, so I'll have to see how feasible it is for me to develop it the overseer itself.

Hey everyone, you may have noticed that some of us have been raising alarms about the amount of spam accounts being created on insufficiently protected instances.

As I wanted to get ahead of this before we're shoulders deep in spam, I developed a small service which can be used to parse the Lemmy Fediverse Observer and retrieve instances which are suspicious enough to block.

The Overseer provides fully documented REST API which you can use to retrieve the instances in 3 different formats. One with all the info, one with just the names, and one as a csv you can copy-paste into your defederation setting. You can even adjust the level of suspicion you want to have.

Not only that, I also developed a python script which you can edit and run and it will automatically update your defederation list. You can set that baby to run on a daily schedule and it will take care that any new suspicious instances are also caught and any servers that cleared up their spam accounts will be recovered.

I plan to improve this service further. Feel free to send me ideas and PRs.

Checked the fediverse observer and I see a lot instances with barely any activity skyrocketing to the top of registered users. I can only surmise they're being flooded with spam accounts and haven't noticed.

Example: https://cubing.social/

How much should we worry about this? Should we be taking pre-emptive steps to defederate them to avoid those spam accounts being utilized against the threadiverse?

The spam problem is already on our doostep and we need to seriously start considering how we're going to handle it ASAP. We need to take knowledge from how email dealt with it and find ways to quickly distribute knowledge about spam instances.

Currently, I get one copy of each notification from 'here' (where I happen to have this account) for each tab under https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/ that I have opened.

This is a major inconvenience; and - I guess - at this time a not-yet implemented feature.

Beyond the issue tracker (or a PR), is there a forum/community (on Lemmy...?) to discuss such enhancements / dev/programming of and around Lemmy?