dmvsocial

dmvsocial, 2 months ago

Hey, thanks for being a part, even just subscribing and voting! I promise you, activity had absolutely nothing to do with this.

There’s a lot of risk to take on by hosting images online and whatnot, and I just don’t want to personally assume the risk that entails. It’s a very large part why registration on this instance was pretty locked down from Day 1.

dmvsocial, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

First, thank you for your work for helping tackle a number of the federation issues (and other bugs!) in Lemmy! If anything, I’m more concerned about the broader Fediverse where there are people who think spreading CSAM is okay.

I’m actually really happy to see that the image_mode lets you disable federated images, that should be a big relief to instances with fewer resources to deal with (in case any other instance admins see my post, please give consideration to using it).

dmvsocial, 2 months ago

Thanks for choosing this instance! Sorry about the abrupt closing announcement, but I guess on the bright side a nickname refresh isn’t that bad 😅

dmvsocial, 2 months ago

Thanks for choosing this instance! Lurking is still a completely valid usecase!

dmvsocial, 2 months ago

So the initial plan was just to take down the server and leave comments/etc up on other instances. Your account would effectively become frozen when viewed from other instances.

I didn’t want to make an announcement yet since I haven’t gotten a script ready, but I’m intending on running a script to at least purge my user account contents and give a week or so for the deletes to federate.

If I get it working this weekend, I was planning on offering to help purge data from people who were privacy conscious.

dmvsocial, 5 months ago

I’ve made some changes related to the potential server load issue and will keep an eye on things.

dmvsocial, 5 months ago

This is now completed. Lemmy is now on 0.19.0. I am postponing the pictrs upgrade until a later date.

dmvsocial, 6 months ago

Sure! I think since a bunch of the area-specific communities are kind of slow, dmvbeer might work?

Would you be interested in being a mod for it?

dmvsocial, 6 months ago

Also, created: !dmvbeer

dmvsocial, 7 months ago

Momentarily I will be taking this instance offline to block federation activities while a data snapshot is created.

During this time, DNS will redirect to the new instance, and the new instance will be available after the snapshot is restored.

Thanks for your patience!

dmvsocial, 7 months ago

The instance has now been migrated. I’m still validating a few remaining items but I do not anticipate any further interruptions to the instance in the next half-hour.

dmvsocial, 10 months ago

No problem! I was getting a bit worried last night and figured others would be interested to know that this was taken fairly seriously, even though this is a much smaller instance compared to many others 🙂

dmvsocial, 10 months ago

I’ve created the above guidelines to supercede the existing rules. These are a fairly verbose first-pass but should better indicate permissible content.

dmvsocial, 11 months ago

Thanks for this, and that was exactly my concern. I checked out a few and verified that they definitely looked odd. They're blocked now and I'll check out the script you linked later this evening.