There's a good chance that the person has automated the activity (it certainly doesn't appear to be done with any thought), but they're technically not a bot.
It's a relatively new feature, but PieFed merges up crossposts that it sees into one post - whether the post you see within a topic is yours or not will depend on the sort type - there's a 'layers' icon beneath relevant posts, and clicking that can get you to the other posts if the visible one isn't the one you want.
That modlog entry is actually for the LW community - it's a bit clearer here: https://lemmy.world/modlog/31408?page=1&actionType=All&userId=13663964
The posts being made to the LW community aren't being made by someone who cares about this comic. They're not genuinely providing anything, they just have a stupid tedious beef with lemmy.ml, and so mindlessly crosspost everything they see posted to an ML community to a non-ML community. This means that if you don't post first, the comic is unlikely to appear at all.
Ah, shit. Cheers. The amount of things learned from the comments under memes is probably a bit high, but I'll send a commit to fix this in a minute.
Does Lemmy look at the mods URL again when it decides to refresh a community (or when it receives an Update / Group) ? If not, then PieFed instances might need to send out some "Add" activities.
PieFed isn't hiding mods - when Lemmy fails to get them, it's for its own mysterious reasons.
In ActivityPub, to get the moderators of this community you can do this from the command-line:
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location https://feddit.uk/c/fedimemes/moderators | jq .orderedItems
To get the moderators of a PieFed community, it's exactly the same:
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location https://piefed.social/c/50501/moderators | jq .orderedItems
In both cases, the mods URL comes from the attributedTo field for the community.
What is the update delay for Fediseer?
I don't know. It's not something I'm familiar with - it might just default to saying 'closed' if it doesn't have the data.
It's interesting that the obvious bot accounts on those instances were set up in mid-March last year, so I'm guessing that these are somebody's army that they've used before, but overplayed their hand when they turned it on the DonaldJMusk person. The admins can reasonably be blamed for setting up instances with open registrations and no protections and then forgetting about them, but I'd be wary of blaming them for being behind the attack directly. The 'nicole' person is unlikely to have used their own instance - it's probably just someone with the same MO as whoever owns the bots, finding and exploiting vulnerable instances.
The attacker seems to be the admin of those two instances. Both instances have their registrations closed.
The alternative theory would be that these instances had open registrations, but rightly closed registration down after the admins noticed the bots. chinese.lol is on 0.18.4 with an admin with a 2 year old account, lemmy.doesnotexist.club has an admin with a 1 year account, and it was also that instance that the 'nicole' person has used before. This downvote attack would need to be a long time in the planning for what you're suggesting to be true.
It was yeah. It's what I happened to have on me at the time, but the activity sent will just have been a copy of what Lemmy sends, so I thought it would apply the same. The activity was:
{
"id": "https://pythag.net/activities/add/zPnR48IYPc7MUUX",
"type": "Add",
"actor": "https://pythag.net/u/andrew",
"object": "https://feddit.nl/post/31230016",
"target": "https://feddit.nl/c/trendingcommunities/featured",
"@context": ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "https://w3id.org/security/v1"],
"audience": "https://feddit.nl/c/trendingcommunities",
"to": ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"],
"cc": ["https://feddit.nl/c/trendingcommunities"]
}
They've said similar things before - it's not like this show invented this problem. Whatever their half-arsed initiatives were before (typically things like sending a middle-aged woman to say "hey guys, don't be mean to girls, mmkay?") didn't work, because a real solution involves acknowledging the wider role that society plays, and spending real money in places that aren't London.
So instead they'll just blame boys - recognise that a teenage boy with low self-esteem is a dangerous thing, and give them one more thing to feel bad about. Tell them they should be different once, and ignore all the ways in which adults continue to encourage or discourage the ways they currently are.
And instead of raising places in the North out of deprivation, they're doing the cheapest thing imaginable. Streaming a show to school kids that explicitly calls out how much modern teaching has been reduced to playing videos for them. Genius.
If you imagine what it would look like without the merging, the one shown would be the one nearest the top of the screen - so if you're sorting by 'New', then it'll be the newest, by 'Top' and it'll be the most upvoted, by 'Active' then the most active. Because of how much LW dominates, it'll pretty much always be that one.