Lemmy.world is temporarily disabling open signups and moving to an application-required signup process, due to ongoing issues with malicious bot accounts....
It’s about transparency for me. The admins claim to care about it and users praise them for it, but to me it seems like they’re doing the bare minimum informing us about changes we are about to notice. Reminds me of corporations writing statements trying to sweep things under the carpet. You and I might realise what it’s all about, but many users without the context won’t.
That’s not what I want Lemmy to be. I want to feel included as a part of the community. I’m doing what I think I can to help it all go in the right direction
I’m only talking about transparency here, didn’t mean to undermine other moderation efforts and sorry if I phrased it ambiguously. But regarding informing users, yes, I think Lemmy.world admins do the minimum
I don’t blame you for this, but the uptime records are incomplete at best. I’ve experienced the site being down (and confirmed with Down for Everyone or Just Me), yet status.lemmy.world showed all systems operational. As I’m writing this, status.lemmy.world is missing most data up to yesterday and dash.lemmy.world shows 16 days uptime.
I have lots of respect to you for even having these. I also remember status.lemmy.world work mostly fine some time ago. But as of right now, both uptime monitors fail to serve their purpose.
This is in regard to Lemmy.world blocking piracy communities from other instances. This post is not about whether you agree with the decision. It’s about how the admins informed their users....
We will upgrade lemmy.world to 0.18.3 today at 20:00 UTC+2 (Check what this isn in your timezone). Expect the site to be down for a few minutes. ““Edit”” I was warned it could be more than a few minutes. The database update might even take 30 minutes or longer....
If announcements of Lemmy releases are what you’re after, !announcements is a place for you. But in broader picture, subsequent updates are usually just not that big of a deal.
I’m a 3D printing wanna-be, not even an amateur. Have seen a few printers, helped assemble one long time ago, played with the software a little, though I have never actually printed anything myself yet. I decided to spend some saved money on a printer for myself....
I don’t understand this visualisation. Perhaps I’m lacking context. Anybody willing to do ELI5… maybe ELI15? What quantity is being compared and what are potential passengers?
Edit - This is a post to the meta group of Blåhaj Lemmy. It is not intended for the entire lemmyverse. If you are not on Blåhaj Lemmy and plan on dropping in to offer your opinion on how we are doing things in a way you don’t agree with, your post will be removed....
I’m fine with the defederation decision, but removing critique is censorship. Yes, it’s not my instance and you may consider my opinion unimportant in that matter, but I don’t think that’s a reason to remove it.
I’m not saying you can’t censor us, just saying you probably shouldn’t do it lightly.
A small reminder that clickbaity titles like this work against the author’s view for all the people who read just the title and scroll further. (And they’re not to blame. You can’t read everything)
TL;DR of the article:
Fall of Twitter and Reddit helped the Fediverse grow. Most users don’t know or care how Federation works and don’t realise the necessity of donations. Fediverse either remains niche or becomes mainstream, the future is not set in stone.
Regarding voting, of course, it should be done after familiarizing oneself with the post to some degree greater than the title.
I meant changing people’s minds. While just the title won’t convince people to think a certain way, it will remain in their minds as one of many opinions on the topic they encountered. And it’s a shame if that opinion is the opposite of what the author has in mind.
This is excessive. I know they’re angry. I know they have a reason to be. I know they don’t mean this literally. But this is not okay. Maybe it’s less not-okay than what u/spez did, but it doesn’t justify doing this.
Does “posting” include comments? If so, the rule about community explicit permission is too harsh. The owner would have to keep an up-to-date list of allowed communities, which is not very viable for general purpose utility bots for users to use in comments.
Does Reddit content mean Reddit reposts, or all content concerning Reddit? E.g. would a bot providing daily statistics about social media platforms, including Reddit, be against these rules?
Defining “spammy” as multiple posts per minute may be problematic. Imagine a bot posting once a week to several communities at once (as an “announcement” kinda thing). Doesn’t feel spammy, even though might make several posts in a single minute.
Edge is Chromium based, so I discourage using it as your main browser, but honestly, it’s not that bad. Works fine and has some nice built-in features, so there are perfectly good use cases for it
Long answer: Instances federate with each other by default. Sometimes an instance defederates from a particular other instance, usually for good reasons (and oftentimes you’re not missing out on valuable stuff). Your instance hosts your account and stuff you post, but connects you to stuff hosted on other instances as well. If some instance goes down, noone can access stuff posted from that instance (like users, posts etc.)
I often browse /all, come across a post that looks interesting but I have no clue what’s it about, so I check the sidebar - and all I find is “An unofficial Lemmy community for X”, " A place to discuss everything about X", or the best kind, “A continuation of r/X from Reddit”....
Temporary Changes to our Sign-Up Policy
Lemmy.world is temporarily disabling open signups and moving to an application-required signup process, due to ongoing issues with malicious bot accounts....
Recent Outages
Hey everyone, so as I’m sure everyone is aware Lemmy.World has been experiencing several outages throughout the last few days....
Lemmy.world announces blocking communities via Discord [update]
This is in regard to Lemmy.world blocking piracy communities from other instances. This post is not about whether you agree with the decision. It’s about how the admins informed their users....
Update: Soon to buy my first printer
This is an update to my previous post. It’s not a valuable read if you haven’t read that one or just aren’t interested in my personal choices....
Aaron is no longer considered as cofounder by reddit. He fought for free speech. (lemmy.world)
Lemmy world will be upgraded to 0.18.3 today (2023-07-30) at 20:00 UTC+2
We will upgrade lemmy.world to 0.18.3 today at 20:00 UTC+2 (Check what this isn in your timezone). Expect the site to be down for a few minutes. ““Edit”” I was warned it could be more than a few minutes. The database update might even take 30 minutes or longer....
Help grow factorio@lemmy.world ! (lemmy.world)
Help grow the great Factorio game here on lemmy.world
Soon to buy my first printer
I’m a 3D printing wanna-be, not even an amateur. Have seen a few printers, helped assemble one long time ago, played with the software a little, though I have never actually printed anything myself yet. I decided to spend some saved money on a printer for myself....
[image] Cars are an incredibly inefficient way to move people (lemmy.world)
lemmynsfw.com has been defederated
Edit - This is a post to the meta group of Blåhaj Lemmy. It is not intended for the entire lemmyverse. If you are not on Blåhaj Lemmy and plan on dropping in to offer your opinion on how we are doing things in a way you don’t agree with, your post will be removed....
Lemmy banner on r/place (i.imgur.com)
Edit: We’ve lost to South Africa. Please help with overwriting this r/ to c/ instead!...
The Fediverse is Not The Future of The Internet. (uselessauth.btw.so)
I don’t think the Fediverse will become mainstream. But I’m actually happy about that. And so should you.
The transphobia stops now
This community is housed on an instance run by two trans women, focused on the needs of the queer and gender diverse community....
/r/place going full-on French Revolution now
Rules of Use for Bots
As we see more and more bots on Lemmy World every day, it’s about time we publish a set of rules for bots and bot-owners....
Reddit Tries to Get Users to Pay by Making App Icon Ugly (9to5mac.com)
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lemmy instances be going down (sh.itjust.works)
At least I subscribed to !memes
I wish people would write some descriptions for their communities
I often browse /all, come across a post that looks interesting but I have no clue what’s it about, so I check the sidebar - and all I find is “An unofficial Lemmy community for X”, " A place to discuss everything about X", or the best kind, “A continuation of r/X from Reddit”....
Reddit kills awards and coins (old.reddit.com)